Education Quotes

“We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.”

-- Barack Obama

“Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.”

-- Marc Andreessen

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

-- William Butler Yeats

“I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.”

-- Arthur Hailey

“Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.”

-- Maria Montessori

“The education of a man is never completed until he dies.”

-- Robert E. Lee

“My mother was born on a tiny farm in County Mayo. She was meant to stay at home and look after the farm while her brother and sister got an education. However, she came to England on a visit and never went back.”

-- Julie Walters

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”

-- Derek Bok

“Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.”

-- Arlen Specter

“Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.”

-- John Maynard Keynes