Education Quotes
“You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they're not going to hear them in America. I believe it's part of their education.”
-- Donna Shalala
“Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.”
-- Bill Cosby
“I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education.”
-- Clyde Tombaugh
“At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.”
-- Booker T. Washington
“If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.”
-- Galileo Galilei
“Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up.”
-- Patty Murray
“The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.”
-- Daisaku Ikeda
“The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don't necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination.”
-- Bill Rancic
“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.”
-- Bryant H. McGill
“I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially health, housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us ideas 'above our station.'”
-- Frances O'Grady
“To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.”
-- Thomas Jefferson
“Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.”
-- Mary Astell