Education Quotes (1097)

Quotes and citations about education

The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school... view

By: Grace Abbott

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

By: Henry B. Adams

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education... view

By: Henry B. Adams

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live... view

By: James Truslow Adams

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live... view

By: John Adams

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

By: Joseph Addison

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction... view

By: Mortimer Adler

I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do with my life... view

By: Clay Aiken

I did get a degree in special education... view

By: Clay Aiken

I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities... view

By: Clay Aiken

If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others... view

By: Clay Aiken

There's my education in computers, right there.. view

By: Howard Aiken

I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel... view

By: Daniel Akaka

There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education... view

By: Buzz Aldrin

During consideration in the Education and the Workforce Committee this year, Democrats and Republicans worked constructively together to improve the delivery of Head Start services to the target populations... view

By: Lucille Roybal Allard

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy... view

By: Woody Allen

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers... view

By: Woody Allen

I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education... view

By: Stephen Ambrose

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms... view

By: Henri Frederic Amiel

Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture... view

By: David Amram

I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease... view

By: Loni Anderson

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

By: Loni Anderson

We're loosely calling it The River Project, but hopefully the pieces that we put together will be educational pieces that will throw some light on the situation as to what kind of jeopardy may be surrounding our great rivers... view

By: Richard Dean Anderson

I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that... view

By: Sparky Anderson

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family... view

By: Kofi Annan

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development... view

By: Kofi Annan

Few things are as essential as education... view

By: Walter Annenberg

In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated... view

By: Walter Annenberg

In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it... view

By: Piers Anthony

If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them... view

By: Mary Antin

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education... view

By: Jeffrey Archer

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet... view

By: Aristotle

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity... view

By: Aristotle

Education is the best provision for old age... view

By: Aristotle

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted... view

By: Billie Joe Armstrong

My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents... view

By: Kenneth Joseph Arrow

We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men... view

By: Arthur Ashe

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is... view

By: Isaac Asimov

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up... view

By: Mary Astell

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer.. view

By: Nancy Astor