Education Quotes

“We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system.”

-- Donna Shalala

“Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.”

-- Daniel J. Boorstin

“Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.”

-- Joyce Meyer

“Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality of education our children are receiving because they had not expected me to ask them about it.”

-- Melissa Bean

“I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.”

-- Anne Sullivan

“'Tis education forms the common mind just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.”

-- Alexander Pope

“Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.”

-- Barack Obama

“The mere imparting of information is not education.”

-- Carter G. Woodson

“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.”

-- Joseph Addison

“I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.”

-- Loni Anderson