Education Quotes
“We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.”
“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