Education Quotes

“The people in Iraq lived essentially good lives. They had brilliant health and education systems. Saddam actually created an incredible infrastructure in a very difficult country, but they were a Mafia family. If you said anything against that regime or that family you would be killed instantly.”

-- Dominic Cooper

“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