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Education Quotes
"No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process."
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"My votes against the education bill and my votes against the Medicare bill got huge play at home."
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"After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half."
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"There were no laptops or handheld devices in class. Ilgauskas didn't exclude them; we did, sort of, unspokenly. Some of us could barely complete a thought without touch pads or scroll buttons, but we understood that high-speed data systems did not belong here. They were an assault on the environment, which was defined by length, width, and depth, with time drawn out, computed in heartbeats."
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"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."
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"Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself."
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"I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out."
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"From education by the Church to education by Germanic value is a step of several generations."
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"Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message."
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"International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief."
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"I want to support the whole idea of the humanities and teaching the humanities as being something that - even if it can't be quantitatively measured as other subjects - it's as fundamental to all education."
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"It really pains me greatly to hear from graduate students that graduate education is a lower priority here."
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"I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant."
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"I read a book one day and my whole life was changed."
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"Isn't reading a kind of preparation for life?' But life is composed of things other than books. It is as if an athlete, on entering the stadium, were to complain that he's not outside exercising.This was the goal of your exercise, of your weights, your practice ring and your training partners."
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"Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught."
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"There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains."
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
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"Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up."
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"There's no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and that's allocated according to political muscle."
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"The best part of being a nanny, Katya thought, was reading children's books aloud to enraptured children like Tricia, for no one had read such books aloud to her when she'd been a little girl. There hadn't been such books in the Spivak household on County Line Road, nor would there have been any time for such interludes."
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"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed."
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"He didn't work for money. He worked because he loved kids and education."
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"I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!"
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"NSF is the only federal agency with a proven track record of selecting education projects through a rigorous, careful and competitive process that draws on a wide variety of experts from outside government."
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"We should be trying to make education less expensive, not more."
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