946 private quotes tagged education

“Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.”— Ron Jaworski

“Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.”— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“I think if you have to pay for your education, you worry very seriously about you're going to do when you've got your degree.”— James Dyson

“A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.”— Pierre Salinger

“I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive.”— Joseph Lancaster

“It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.”— William J. Clinton

“Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.”— Pearl S. Buck

“I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.”— Danica McKellar

“Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.”— Daisaku Ikeda

“We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families.”— Dan Lipinski

“In my home State of Louisiana, several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, literally dozens across the entire State.”— Bobby Jindal

“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.”— Gail Godwin

“It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.”— Norman Cousins

“We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.”— Sandra Day O'Connor

“We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.”— Maria Montessori

“I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that they consider glamorous, which is acting, and yet I took a time to really get my education and study mathematics, and I think math is the cat's meow.”— Danica McKellar

“I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.”— Spike Lee

“I was a total education geek. I loved school. I loved learning. I loved doing homework. All of my books and notebooks from high school are underlined and highlighted and there are notes all over the margins. And you know, I was a theater kid too. I was all over the place.”— Sophia Bush

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

“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.”— Clay Aiken

“The government has convinced parents that at some point it's no longer their responsibility. And in fact, they force them, in many respects, to turn their children over to the public education system and wrest control from them and block them out of participation of that. That has to change or education will not improve in this country.”— Rick Santorum

“Competitiveness is really what it costs you per man-hour to get you what you want. In other words, there's an education level that plays into the mix and so if it's inexpensive to buy an hour of real good education in places like China versus the U.S., that factors in.”— Ray Dalio

“I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.”— Joshua Lederberg

“You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.”— Wangari Maathai

“But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises, but let those who know our childrens' names- parents, teachers and school board members- make education decisions.”— Mark Kennedy