Education Quotes
“My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.”
“Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another, through sheer force of will, he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country.”
-- Seth Graham-Smith
“My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.”
-- Baz Luhrmann
“With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.”
-- Sally Kirkland
“Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime.”
-- Jonathan Kozol
“Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.”
-- Danny Glover