Education Quotes
“Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve.”
“A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.”
-- George Bernard Shaw
“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.”
-- Horace Mann
“All school districts receive funds from the federal government, through the Department of Education, to support anti-drug education efforts.”
-- John Walters
“As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.”
-- Naguib Mahfouz