Education Quotes
“Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.”
“Being the lead of the show and working a lot of hours - all good stuff, a tremendous education, incredible opportunity, it changed my life - it was a marathon, and by the end of it I was pretty beat.”
-- James Van Der Beek
“My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children's education.”
-- Spike Lee
“Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.”
-- Noam Chomsky
“Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.”
-- Bryant H. McGill
“I'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up.”
-- Kris Allen
“Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.”
-- James A. Garfield