Education Quotes
“If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'”
“Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.”
-- Stephen Vizinczey
“In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.”
-- Loretta Young
“So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.”
-- Charles Schumer
“We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.”
-- Nicholas Negroponte
“For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing.”
-- Vince Cable
“And I thought that was the best way for me to participate, because standing in the crowd and listening is a fantastic education, but it's not my nature. I need to be involved. So I did that instead.”
-- Andre Braugher
“I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.”
-- Peter Brimelow