Education Quotes

“We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.”

-- H. G. Wells

“Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.”

-- John Ruskin

“Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education.”

-- Jesse Helms

“I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years.”

-- Michele Bachmann

“Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.”

-- Brigham Young

“I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable - me, it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like, 'Oh finally, I'm proud of you!'”

-- David Guetta

“My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.”

-- Twyla Tharp

“Education is hanging around until you've caught on.”

-- Robert Frost

“My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.”

-- Benedict Cumberbatch

“Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.”

-- Henry Adams