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.”
“And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.”
-- Jon Secada
“My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.”
-- Christopher Hitchens
“It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.”
-- Brooks Atkinson
“English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.”
-- E. B. White
“No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.”
-- William Law
“Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.”
-- Alphonso Jackson
“What the mayors care about is, 'How can I get money to invest in the infrastructure in my city? How do we put people back to work, lower the unemployment rate, provide for job training programs? How do we make class sizes smaller and make investments in our children from an education standpoint?'”
-- Michael Nutter