I’m opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education, or public health, period. – Kamala Harris
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn. – John Lubbock The Pleasures of Life.
I don’t think I should go to school anymore. Instead of getting smarter, I’m getting dumber every day. I figure in about one more month I’ll bottom out. – Charles M. Schulz Peanuts, Rerun van Pelt.
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read. – Abraham Lincoln
I really don’t want you to think of Qatar as a hydrocarbon country alone. We know that hydrocarbons will come and go. But education will stay. It is the most important thing for us. – Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. – Horace Mann
I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose educational system had its roots dating back to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. – George Andrew Olah
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. – Henry Adams
I’d like to professionally… continue my education and hopefully become an attorney. I think that’s the best way to stop the miscarriage of justice that happened to me from happening to somebody else. I don’t think it should ever happen to anyone ever again – not one person. – George Zimmerman
My father emigrated from Lithuania to the United States at the age of 12. He received his higher education in New York City and graduated in 1914 from the New York University School of Dentistry. My mother came at the age of 14 from a part of Russia which, after the war, became Poland; she was only 19 when she was married to my father. – Gertrude B. Elion
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery. – Horace Mann
I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people’s eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia. – Haile Gebrselassie
Maybe it’s a tired tale, but without an education, you’re not going to go anywhere. – H. G. Bissinger
I do regret that when I went to college, I didn’t have a liberal arts education. I got a BFA in musical theater, so it was a very directed toward what I was doing. I wish that I had expanded my horizons a little bit. – Heather Dubrow
Let’s not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children. – Hillary Clinton
My education has been pro-England. I have been an England-minded citizen of Hamburg, and I am still in a way English-minded, but I have been disappointed by the Brits over the years. – Helmut Schmidt
But what I really believe is education is a key to pretty much everything – prosperity, economics, peace, stability. – Greg Mortenson
The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society. – Gaston Caperton
I believe strongly in the power of arts education to engage and empower young people. – Heather Watts
My father is a real idealist, and he’s all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding ‘No.’ But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I’d be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense. – Hugh Jackman
The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school. – Grace Abbott
The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened. – Helene D. Gayle
Liberals, conservatives, Muslims, Jews, Christians, and I find – I think education is something that can bring us together. – Greg Mortenson
When I left South Africa in 1960 I was 20 years old. I wanted to try to get an education, and music education was not available for me in South Africa. – Hugh Masekela
That’s the trouble with stories. People start out fantastic. You think they’re extraordinary, but it turns out as the work goes along, they’re just average with a good education. – Grace Paley
Not only does neoliberalism undermine both civic education and public values and confuse education with training, it also treats knowledge as a product, promoting a neoliberal logic that views schools as malls, students as consumers, and faculty as entrepreneurs. – Henry Giroux