Education Quotes

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

If you have special coaches for goalkeeping, physical education, strikers, fitness, you should also have an expert for the brain.

The anti-elitist values in America, I think, are very destructive to education.

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue - it's personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.

Public education is an investment in our future.

Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

I started my career in parent education with the idea that we needed to let our kids go. I believed that parents were suffocating for their children. There was no room for individuality and personhood.

Even though I didn't have a lot of material things, I had the love and education and all together a lot of kids don't have the same chances, so the goal is to give some chances to the kids that don't have it.

We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.

I had been raised in the mountains of Idaho by a father who distrusted many of the institutions that people take for granted - public education, doctors and hospitals, and the government.

My mom and dad, although they may not have had a lot of formal education, they were two of the most brilliant people that I know.

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.

One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so.

I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things. Ignorance is something that can be remedied by education.

To me, what socialism means is to guarantee a basic level of dignity. It's asserting the value of saying that the America we want and the America that we are proud of is one in which all children can access a dignified education. It's one in which no person is too poor to have the medicines they need to live.

The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.

I hope that I inspire women to believe in themselves, no matter where they come from; no matter what education they have; what particular background they originate from.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.