Education Quotes
“You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they're not going to hear them in America. I believe it's part of their education.”
“And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.”
-- Jon Secada
“My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.”
-- Christopher Hitchens
“It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.”
-- Brooks Atkinson
“English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.”
-- E. B. White
“No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.”
-- William Law
“Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.”
-- Alphonso Jackson
“What the mayors care about is, 'How can I get money to invest in the infrastructure in my city? How do we put people back to work, lower the unemployment rate, provide for job training programs? How do we make class sizes smaller and make investments in our children from an education standpoint?'”
-- Michael Nutter