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.
By : Grace Abbott
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
By : Henry B. Adams
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
By : James Truslow Adams
There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
By : John Adams
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.
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.
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.
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.
By : Clay 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.
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.
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.
By : Lucille Roybal Allard
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
By : Woody Allen
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
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.
By : Stephen Ambrose
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
By : Henri Frederic Amiel
Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.
By : David Amram
I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
By : Loni Anderson
I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.
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.
By : Richard Dean Anderson
I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that.
By : Sparky Anderson
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
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.
By : Kofi Annan
In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.
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.
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.
By : Mary Antin
But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.
By : Jeffrey Archer
Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
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.
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.
By : Arthur Ashe
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
By : Mary Astell