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.”
“Research shows that children do better in school and are less likely to drop out when fathers are involved. Engaged parents can strengthen communities, mentor and tutor students, and demonstrate through their actions how much they value their children's education.”
-- Arne Duncan
“Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems.”
-- Timothy Murphy
“It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.”
-- Glenda Jackson
“In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.”
-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.”
-- Mark Twain
“I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.”
-- Felix Bloch