Explore Quotes on Education

When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body - it's a blessing.

I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.

I believe in education and wish I had a better one.

Training and education is one and the same: that is, to train the mind through a discipline in order to awake the inner intelligence of the individuals.

Today, education does not give you the wisdom and the understanding; it only indoctrinates you to believe something. So the mind knows very less but accepts so many things; it may be science, it may be technology, it may be anything.

By providing every student with a quality education, and the materials they need for class and to do their homework, we can help students from all backgrounds learn and thrive.

I remember my school days with mixed emotions; I was so grateful to be given a mainstream education, and yet at times I felt incredibly segregated.

What I saw when I went to France was that really good quality education and childcare is seen there as a completely normal part of everyday life.

I was 17 and living on the streets. I had the education of technically an eighth-grader, but in reality, I had never had a formal education.

I thought, 'Let's make it a check list. What if I got my education even though I lost my mother, even though my dad is in a shelter?' and looking at these things as hurdles to go over. I could inspire myself.

I would radically redesign early years education to learn from the best bits of the Finnish system.

Higher education is meant to provide economic opportunity to Americans - not provide unscrupulous companies the opportunity to syphon off billions in federal taxpayer dollars unfairly.

Like many Asian parents, mine were very focused on education. My dad would quiz me with multiplication tables when I was about 5.

You know, both my parents aren't really from this country, and the emphasis was really on education and studying, and TV seemed like it was not the best use of my time for my parents. So ironically, of course, I rebelled completely and now it's how I make a living.

I think we were raised in a nice Texas Jewish family where education was the most important thing, and close behind that was the arts. It was emphasized and expected that we'd play piano.

Immigrants have always come into the country with low levels of education. Whether it's the Irish or Italian or Polish, here is the land of opportunity. It's where people come in at the bottom and build themselves up. To try to bring in people who have already made it is un-American.

We talk about what's important to Hispanics: education, family, creating an environment in which you can achieve what you want to achieve because there aren't going to be obstacles in your way.

I'm not an education expert, and frankly I don't want to make education decisions for our state. But I am experienced at successfully managing organizations, and putting people on a path where they can succeed.

Gaining my education from practical experience certainly benefited me. If I had gone on to be a lawyer, my life wouldn't have been anywhere near as interesting.

My parents' greatest wish was that I graduated from college. Neither of my parents had a college education, and they really wanted me to have one.

American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them.