Education Quotes
“Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another, through sheer force of will, he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country.”
“An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.”
-- Russell Baker
“I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.”
-- Carl Sagan
“The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.”
-- Trevor Nunn
“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”
-- Frank Zappa
“Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education.”
-- Nicholas Negroponte
“When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.”
-- Billy Joel