Famous Quotes: Education

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
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The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
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We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system.
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I talk to student-athletes. I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes. You need to get an education, keep your hands clean and try to represent the university.
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The willingness to learn new skills is very high.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
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I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work.
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No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
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The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
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Economic prosperity and quality education for our children are inexorably linked.
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Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime.
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Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
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I believe we all agree that, for the health of Kansas, nothing is more important than education.
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All around as a person, on right decisions, on holding your money, on doing your trade, a good education is a must. I don't think I would've done as good without an education.
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I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you.
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Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.
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The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
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The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
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