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.”
“Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.”
-- Marian Wright Edelman
“I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.”
-- Sally Kirkland
“I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.”
-- Jenna Bush
“Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.”
-- Robert M. Hutchins
“In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.”
-- Walter Annenberg
“I feel like in America, we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education.”
-- Alonzo Mourning
“There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.”
-- David Hume