Education Quotes
“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.”
“You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they're not going to hear them in America. I believe it's part of their education.”
-- Donna Shalala
“I will continue my activities related to education in one way or another. I certainly would have at the top my agenda, with respect to education, the need to do much better with modern educational technology.”
-- Major Owens
“The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.”
-- Alphonso Jackson
“Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.”
-- Bill Cosby
“I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education.”
-- Clyde Tombaugh
“At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.”
-- Booker T. Washington