Education Quotes
“Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.”
-- Angela Davis
“I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and work in the United States federal tax court. My husband and I raised five kids. We've raised 23 foster children. We've applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.”
-- Michele Bachmann
“There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.”
-- Steven Soderbergh
“May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.”
-- Joseph Lancaster
“The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.”
-- Sydney J. Harris
“In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.”
-- Richard Cobden
“We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.”
-- Earl Warren
“I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements.”
-- Vanessa Carlton
“I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia.”
-- Haile Gebrselassie
“As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.”
-- William Godwin
“I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.”
-- Jonathan Kozol
“A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.”
-- Ann Plato
“My job is to make sure that if you're a family in Florida, your children can get a good education and you have the opportunity for a job. That's my job and that's what I think about every day.”
-- Rick Scott
“I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'”
-- Samuel L. Jackson
“Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.”
-- Garrett Hardin