top of page
Education Quotes


"Education is critical not only to each one of us individually, but also to build the economic vitality of our state."


"I ain't got much education, but I got some sense."


"Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy."


"I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel."


"The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else."


"Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education."


"Let people have an education and you can't stop them."


"Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship tense and anxious groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began only I was without compass or sounding line and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. "Light! Give me light!" was the wordless cry of my soul and rhe light of love shone on me in that very hour."


"Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education."


"I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever."


"For in this Case, we are not to give Credit to the Many, who say, that none ought to be educated but the Free; but rather to the Philosophers, who say, that the Well-educated alone are free."


"Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school."


"The giving of love is an education in itself."


"My education and background thoroughly inform my writing."


"One of our priorities should be to reduce our dependence on foreign oil."


"It is right that you should read according to your temperament, occupations, hobbies, and vocations. But it is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar, unwilling to explore the unfamiliar. In science, we respect the research worker. In literature, we should not always read the books blessed by the majority."


"People were concerned about national security, and that precluded us from having the opportunity to break through on the issues that we cared most about - the economy, education and health care."


"Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day."


"At the time it seriously troubled me, but in drafting me as Marshall Plan Administrator, President Truman did as great a favor for me as one man can do for another. It opened my eyes to many things of which I was totally unaware and it was the beginning of my real education."


"A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract."


"From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world."


"Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment."


"We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens."


"At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education."


"Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations."


"A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences."


"I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist."


"An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently."


"We got stuffed 4-1, but it was just great to play against, it was like an education. You think you are half good and then you go and play against a side like that!"


"It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems."


"I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school."


"Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled."


"Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots."


"Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students."


"Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes."


"Last year, I twice voted against the Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations bill because it did not adequately fund education in general, and Native American programs specifically."
bottom of page