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Education Quotes


"An early fascination with higher mathematics at the university level blossomed into speculative thinking that could provide a basis for dealing with economic issues."


"Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education."


"The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative."


"I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University."


"If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct."


"The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that."


"We are fortunate to have some of the greatest and best teachers in the world, but we want to make sure that those few that try to sneak through the system are caught in advance."


"One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries."


"Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to."


"To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education."


"For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart."


"Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced."


"Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future."


"Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that."


"Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education."


"My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education."


"On a lighter but serious side I believe that homework was meant for parents to take a keen interest in the studies of children rather than leave it completely for the teacher. This way the parent child communication also developed. However with the passage of time the world become more mechanical and commercial. Quality time suffixed for quantity time and homework became a means of earning for many an educated unemployed teachers. How sad we sure have progressed but yet in many ways have lost our basic values, ethics and morality. It's time to wake up and DO OUR HOMEWORK."


"I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938."


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


"Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed."


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


"Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin."


"The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction."


"No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education."


"Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus."


"I'm also working with Mrs. Bush on some education projects in Afghanistan, so I get to see her a great deal."
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