Education quotes

“The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.” Michelle Obama

“See, that's why Barack's running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly - to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American - and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.” Michelle Obama

“I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.” Michelle Obama

“Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.” Chuck Palahniuk

“Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.” Mitt Romney

“The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.” Mitt Romney

“I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon.” Mitt Romney

“Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education, when taxes are lowered, when every citizen has affordable, portable health insurance and when constitutional freedoms are preserved.” Mitt Romney

“We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.” Theodore Roosevelt

“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.” Theodore Roosevelt

“In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.” Bill Gates

“Segregation has no place in the education system.” Richard Dawkins

“Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.” Bertrand Russell

“We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.” Bertrand Russell

“Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.” Bill Cosby

“I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.” Bill Cosby

“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.” Francis Bacon

“Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.” Steven Spielberg

“Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.” Joseph Stalin

“An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.” Charles Stanley

“The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.” Michael Jackson

“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.” Rabindranath Tagore

“It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.” Desmond Tutu

“Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.” Desmond Tutu

“Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.” Desmond Tutu

“If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?” Virginia Woolf

“Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.” Marcus Aurelius

“Education is the cheap defense of nations.” Edmund Burke