Education Quotes

“My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense.”

-- Hugh Jackman

“It is always in season for old men to learn.”

-- Aeschylus

“A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.”

-- George Bernard Shaw

“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.”

-- Horace Mann

“Education comes from within you get it by struggle and effort and thought.”

-- Napoleon Hill

“All school districts receive funds from the federal government, through the Department of Education, to support anti-drug education efforts.”

-- John Walters

“As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.”

-- Naguib Mahfouz

“Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.”

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing.”

-- Michael N. Castle

“As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.”

-- Karl Rove