Education Quotes

“The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.”

-- John W. Gardner

“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