Education and Learning Quotes

"During that year at Harvard learning with Carl Steinitz, I had the feeling that I was drinking knowledge out of a fire hose. I learned more in that year than I had learned in the previous ten years of my education."

"Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."

"Genius without education is like silver in the mine."

"To my mind, the education of children - girl children, specifically - is what really creates an enlightened society. It creates a liberal society."

"Efficient spending and saving will give the family more security, more opportunities, more education, and a higher standard of living."

"I had a good experience in college, but I don't think interdisciplinary education is something that's stressed very much at all. It's generally considered to be something of a bad idea."

"Governments can make a greater effort to encourage computer science education, especially among young girls, racial minorities, and other groups whose perspectives have been underrepresented in AI."

"To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education."

"In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon."

"It is only the ignorant who despise education."

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

"My parents were able to pay our expenses, but not for education. We were encouraged to work hard in school and get scholarships."

"We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought."

"The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure."

"Knowledge without education is but armed injustice."

"Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home."

"All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear."

"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."

"Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others."

"The idea that we're going to austerity ourselves into prosperity is so mistaken, and honestly, I feel like one of the big problems we have is that, because Democrats don't have a deep understanding of or degrees in economics, they allow Wall Street folks to roll in the door and think that they're giving them an education."

"We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible."

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

"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."

"Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people."

"To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education."

"The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence."

"Public education is our greatest pathway to opportunity in America. So we need to invest in and strengthen our public universities today, and for generations to come."

"It makes a lot more sense for us to be investing in jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration."

"Prenatal education can only be an unconscious result of what the parents, particularly the mother, do. If, until the child is born, the mother acts in such a way that she expresses what is morally and intellectually correct, then what she accomplishes in her own continuing education will transfer to the child."

"With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism, like you've got in Africa now and like you've got in Haiti. So what we're talking about is there has to be an educational program. That's very important."

"Education has for its object the formation of character."

"Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education."

"English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street."

"In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it's not a priority in the agendas of many leaders."

"Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just 'virtual reality.'"

"If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around."

"I never let schooling interfere with my education."

"My parents believed in education and economic security, and I thank them for it. Because I think that's part of what's made my life stable. It was instilled in me. You have to be able to pay your bills. You do not get into debt. And I never have been."

"In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system."

"Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It's oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys."

"One of the most beautiful things about Britain, apart from the NHS and the free education, is the British Army."

"I am passionate about higher education and am hugely impressed by Portsmouth's mission to encourage students from every walk of life to excel."

"I give the children education."

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

"Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war."

"Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen."

"I think the combination of graduate education in a field like Computer Science and the opportunity to apply this in a work environment like Microsoft is what drove me. The impact these opportunities create can lead to work that has broad, worldwide impact."

"I was the first tenured woman at Columbia. That was 1972; every law school was looking for its woman. Why? Because Stan Pottinger, who was then head of the office for civil rights of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, was enforcing the Nixon government contract program."

"There are millions of women who are trapped in lower-paying jobs and don't have the skills for a higher-paying job, and don't have the money or the time to access the higher education that they need for a better job."

"Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything."