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.”
“Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.”
-- Desmond Tutu
“My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table I had a tremendous music education.”
-- Renee Fleming
“Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.”
-- Pete Seeger
“We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.”
-- Kinky Friedman
“You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.”
-- Wangari Maathai
“Furthermore, we believe that health care reform, again I said at the beginning of my remarks, that we sent the three pillars that the President's economic stabilization and job creation initiatives were education and innovation - innovation begins in the classroom - clean energy and climate, addressing the climate issues in an innovative way to keep us number one and competitive in the world with the new technology, and the third, first among equals I may say, is health care, health insurance reform.”
-- Nancy Pelosi