Education Quotes

“The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. They have to be neutral with respect to how people behave.”

-- Rick Santorum

“Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.”

-- Horace Mann

“The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.”

-- Sam Houston

“Education is the transmission of civilization.”

-- Will Durant

“Education is all a matter of building bridges.”

-- Ralph Ellison

“Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.”

-- Ernie Fletcher

“Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.”

-- Desmond Tutu

“It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.”

-- Clyde Tombaugh

“For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.”

-- Plato

“The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced.”

-- John Ruskin