3,704 quotes
If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
William Jennings Bryan
Lawyer · American · 1860 – 1925
Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.
Anthony Weiner
Politician · American · b. 1964
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
George Santayana
Philosopher · American · 1863 – 1952
I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be.
Franz Boas
Scientist · American · 1858 – 1942
In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.
James Payn
Novelist · English · 1830 – 1898
If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.
Patrick J. Kennedy
Politician · American · b. 1967
In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.
James Cronin
Physicist · American · b. 1931
We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.
William Glasser
Psychologist · American
My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System.
If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?
Paul Wellstone
Politician · American · 1944 – 2002
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
John F. Kennedy
President · American · 1917 – 1963
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
William S. Burroughs
Writer · American · 1914 – 1997
Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities.
Armstrong Williams
Journalist · American · b. 1959
Nor, in our own country, must we fail to take notice of the establishment of School Boards.
Americans are a decade behind Canada when it comes to sex education and understanding their bodies.
Sue Johanson
Writer · Canadian
An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
Jack Welch
Businessman · American · b. 1935
Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.
Joe Baca
Politician · American · b. 1947
But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.
Jeffrey Archer
Politician · English · b. 1940
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
James A. Garfield
President · American · 1831 – 1881
Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.
Lord Mountbatten
Soldier · British · 1900 – 1979
My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student.
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
Agnes Repplier
Writer · American · 1855 – 1950
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
Poet · Irish · 1865 – 1939
The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?
Susan George
Activist · American · b. 1950
I'm also working with Mrs. Bush on some education projects in Afghanistan, so I get to see her a great deal.
Karen Hughes
Politician · American · b. 1956
As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.
I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little.
Richard Linklater
Director · American · b. 1960
Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education.
Bob Riley
Politician · American
Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.
Sargent Shriver
Politician · American · b. 1915
Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy.
This nation has been drifting back in comparison with the rest of the world for the last 20 years in education.
Roy Romer
Politician · American · b. 1928
I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.
Sarah Zettel
Author · American · b. 1966
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
Jacques Barzun
Educator · American · b. 1907
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
Robert M. Hutchins
Educator · American · 1899 – 1977
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.
Brigham Young
Leader · American · 1801 – 1877
We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.
David Brainerd
Clergyman · American
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
Doris Lessing
Writer · English · b. 1919
A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
Phillip E. Johnson
Educator · American
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
Aeschylus
Poet · Greek
If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.
Stephen Leacock
Economist · Canadian · 1869 – 1944
A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Judge · American · 1841 – 1935
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes
Publisher · American · 1917 – 1990
The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.
Doug Larson
Cartoonist · American
This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.
Thomas Dekker
Dramatist · English
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
Francis Bacon
Philosopher · English · 1561 – 1626
Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.
Frederick William Robertson
Clergyman · English · 1816 – 1853
I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Politician · b. 1939
But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
Sally Ride
Astronaut · American · b. 1951