Education Quotes
“Competitiveness is really what it costs you per man-hour to get you what you want. In other words, there's an education level that plays into the mix and so if it's inexpensive to buy an hour of real good education in places like China versus the U.S., that factors in.”
“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.”
-- Kofi Annan
“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”
-- Theodore Roosevelt
“Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.”
-- Roger Bannister
“Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.”
-- Joel Coen
“So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.”
-- Phil Lesh