Education Quotes
“I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.”
“An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.”
-- Russell Baker
“I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.”
-- Carl Sagan
“The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.”
-- Trevor Nunn
“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”
-- Frank Zappa
“Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education.”
-- Nicholas Negroponte
“When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.”
-- Billy Joel