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

“But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.”

-- Jeffrey Archer

“I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education.”

-- Michael J. Fox

“If you can feed your family, give them an education, then you are a success.”

-- Jami Gertz

“Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.”

-- Lee Iacocca

“I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.”

-- Susan Orlean

“We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.”

-- Yakov Smirnoff

“A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.”

-- Joseph Lancaster

“I'm not sure it's the stimulus money that will necessarily allow the economy to recover. It will help to fortify our budgets, frankly, to ensure that there isn't as much backsliding in the areas of education and healthcare, for example.”

-- Jon Huntsman, Jr.

“I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn't do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you're done, don't make your hobby your job.”

-- Eric Bana