education quotes

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

If you give a person a fish, they’ll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they’ll fish for a lifetime.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

See, that’s why Barack’s running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly – to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American – and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

So we know that it’s not enough for us to simply encourage more people to study abroad. We also need to make sure that they can actually afford it.

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn’t cool.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: ‚Does your teacher use class time well?‘ and, ‚When you’re confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?‘

I left school to concentrate on racing. It was a family decision between my mum, dad and myself.

I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

The schools ain’t what they used to be and never was.

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys‘ school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

In terms of my involvement in ‚don’t ask, don’t tell‘ and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools – these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it’s not religion, but you can train through education.

Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.

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.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

There is no education like adversity.

I never enjoyed school and I was never that good at school so leaving wasn’t the biggest thing, but the social aspect of school, leaving your friends, you lose contact with them a bit and now I have more friends at the race track than the friends I keep in touch with at school.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

We can’t afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.

I believe that in the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.