Education Quotes
“To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education.”
“The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.”
-- John Conyers
“I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.”
-- Ray Bradbury
“So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.”
-- Vidal Sassoon
“The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see what's actually happening to our culture?”
-- Hugh Mackay
“I really owe everything to my parents and their devotion and drive to see to it that their children had the education which led to the opportunities that they never were able to have.”
-- George J. Mitchell