Education Quotes

“Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher education outstrips any in the world. Look where the rest of the world goes for higher education, for graduate degrees. They come here.”

-- Donna Shalala

“I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.”

-- Tom Stoppard

“History is a race between education and catastrophe.”

-- H. G. Wells

“Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.”

-- Lyndon B. Johnson

“The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.”

-- Richard Cobden

“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.”

-- Francis Bacon

“Education liberates a woman.”

-- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

“Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.”

-- Michelle Williams

“I don't know if I'm a national education figure.”

-- Jeb Bush

“Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.”

-- Karl Kraus