Education Quotes
“Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.”
“Being the lead of the show and working a lot of hours - all good stuff, a tremendous education, incredible opportunity, it changed my life - it was a marathon, and by the end of it I was pretty beat.”
-- James Van Der Beek
“My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children's education.”
-- Spike Lee
“Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.”
-- Noam Chomsky
“Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.”
-- Bryant H. McGill
“I'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up.”
-- Kris Allen
“Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.”
-- James A. Garfield