Education Quotes
“Because if you don't have a great workforce, a great higher education system, you're not going to have the next eBay, the next AmGen, the next, you know, Miasole, and not only California but America is going to fall behind a whole new competitive context which is obviously China, India, and other countries.”
“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