Education Quotes

“This is not a zero-sum game. We know that if we provide access and education, particularly where there are gaps in the market, we will create more jobs, we will create more growth, and we will create more activity in the U.S. market, which will be good for our economy.”

-- Karen Mills

“Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.”

-- Daniel J. Boorstin

“Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.”

-- Joyce Meyer

“Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality of education our children are receiving because they had not expected me to ask them about it.”

-- Melissa Bean

“I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.”

-- Anne Sullivan

“'Tis education forms the common mind just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.”

-- Alexander Pope

“Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.”

-- Barack Obama

“The mere imparting of information is not education.”

-- Carter G. Woodson

“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.”

-- Joseph Addison

“I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.”

-- Loni Anderson