Education Quotes
“I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family.”
“We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.”
-- Bob Taft
“The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students.”
-- Ron Lewis
“It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.”
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible - my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on.”
-- Anna Friel
“To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.”
-- Jennifer Granholm
“It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.”
-- Thomas Huxley