946 private quotes tagged education

“Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.”— Ernest Istook

“I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.”— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn't have any education at all. But they were very structured. They worked hard. You know, they didn't complain. They didn't murmur. And they believe in the Christ.”— Evander Holyfield

“The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.”— Jean Piaget

“You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.”— Dennis Miller

“No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.”— Louis L'Amour

“To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.”— John Ruskin

“I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.”— John W. Gardner

“To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.”— Aleister Crowley

“As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.”— Dee Dee Myers

“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”— B. F. Skinner

“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.”— Joseph Addison

“The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.”— James A. Baldwin

“Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.”— Lyndon B. Johnson

“Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.”— Maria Montessori

“This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.”— Carter G. Woodson

“The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.”— Diogenes

“Your library is your paradise.”— Desiderius Erasmus

“My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege.”— Ezra Koenig

“Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.”— William Glasser

“The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.”— Gary Locke

“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.”— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.”— Alan K. Simpson

“Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.”— Lyndon B. Johnson

“If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?”— Maria Montessori