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Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.

Paul Wellstone

Politician · American · 1944 – 2002

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn

Businessman · American

There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing.

William Glasser

Psychologist · American

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

Jimmy Carter

President · American · b. 1924

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Lyndon B. Johnson

President · American · 1908 – 1973

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

Orson Scott Card

Writer · American · b. 1951

Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.

Neil LaBute

Director · American · b. 1963

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

Euripides

Poet · Greek

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

George W. Bush

President · American · b. 1946

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

George Bernard Shaw

Dramatist · Irish · 1856 – 1950

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

Manuel Puig

Author · Argentinian · 1932 – 1990

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer · English · 1874 – 1936

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Philosopher · Swiss · 1712 – 1778

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Benjamin Franklin

Politician · American · 1706 – 1790

I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.

William Glasser

Psychologist · American

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Theodore Roosevelt

President · American · 1858 – 1919

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.

William Godwin

Writer · English · 1756 – 1836

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Plato

Philosopher · Greek

In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.

Walter Annenberg

Businessman · American · 1908 – 2002

I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school.

Francis Ford Coppola

Director · American · b. 1939

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

President · American · 1882 – 1945

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poet · English · 1772 – 1834

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Benjamin Disraeli

Statesman · British · 1804 – 1881

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Aldous Huxley

Novelist · English · 1894 – 1963

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosopher · German · 1788 – 1860

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Albert Einstein

Physicist · German · 1879 – 1955

Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing.

Michael N. Castle

Politician · American · b. 1939

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Albert Camus

Philosopher · French · 1913 – 1960

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Journalist · Polish · b. 1932

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

John Ruskin

Writer · English · 1819 – 1900

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

William Godwin

Writer · English · 1756 – 1836

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Walter Scott

Novelist · Scottish · 1771 – 1832

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.

Jim Rohn

Businessman · American

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Judge · American · 1841 – 1935

Working together we can strengthen Delaware State University and the students who attend it.

Michael N. Castle

Politician · American · b. 1939

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

John Keats

Poet · English · 1795 – 1821

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

C. S. Lewis

Author · British · 1898 – 1963

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Oscar Wilde

Dramatist · Irish · 1854 – 1900

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Malcolm X

Activist · American · 1925 – 1965

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poet · American · 1803 – 1882

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

William Glasser

Psychologist · American

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Thomas Kempis

Writer · German

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

Maya Lin

Architect · American · b. 1959

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

Woody Allen

Director · American · b. 1935

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

Earl Warren

Judge · American · 1891 – 1974

No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.

Bob Riley

Politician · American

Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.

Fran Lebowitz

Journalist · American · b. 1951

The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.

Ron Kind

Politician · American · b. 1963

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