Education Quotes
“You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.”
-- Jeff Foxworthy
“I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.”
-- Al McGuire
“Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.”
-- John F. Kennedy
“I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.”
-- Carl Lewis
“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.”
-- Robert Green Ingersoll
“About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools, and creating more room for entrepreneurial organizations to develop. And about half on technology, which I look at as a global platform.”
-- Reed Hastings
“The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.”
-- Henry Ward Beecher
“Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.”
-- Ron Jaworski
“When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.”
-- Desiderius Erasmus
“Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.”
-- Karl Kraus
“There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.”
-- Hillary Clinton
“The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.”
-- Aldous Huxley
“When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.”
-- Michael Badnarik
“A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.”
-- Robert M. Hutchins
“In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.”
-- James Payn
“I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon.”
-- Mitt Romney