- Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.
- Roland Joffe on Education
- Man is what he reads.
- Joseph Brodsky on Education
- 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.
- Jonathan Kozol on Education
- Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality of education our children are receiving because they had not expected me to ask them about it.
- Melissa Bean on Education
- Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.
- Joseph Lancaster on Education
- May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.
- Joseph Lancaster on Education
- Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.
- H. G. Bissinger on Education
- Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
- Mary Wollstonecraft on Education
- Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
- Bertrand Russell on Education
- Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
- Jane Austen on Education
- Men of polite learning and a liberal education.
- Matthew Henry on Education
- Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.
- Christopher Bond on Education
- Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
- John Ruskin on Education
- Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation.
- Bjorn Lomborg on Education
- More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.
- John Le Carre on Education
- Most everything I do revolves around tae kwon do. That said, I like to be a typical girl and go shopping. I have three nieces and nephews that I like to hang out with. I'm also finishing my last semester at the University of Houston, where I'm majoring in childhood education.
- Diana Lopez on Education
- Most Hispanics are concerned with the same issues other Americans are - the economy, jobs, education. Similar to Main Street America.
- Henry Bonilla on Education
- Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.
- Mahesh Bhupathi on Education
- Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.
- Roger Bannister on Education
- Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
- John W. Gardner on Education
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
- Billie Joe Armstrong on Education
- Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
- My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.
- Antonia Fraser on Education
- My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.
- Melinda Gates on Education
- My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education.
- Ronnie James Dio on Education
- My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.
- Christopher Hitchens on Education
- My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege.
- Ezra Koenig on Education
- My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
- My education and background thoroughly inform my writing.
- David Brin on Education
- My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
- Dylan Thomas on Education
- My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense.
- Hugh Jackman on Education
- My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
- Baz Luhrmann on Education
- My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education - he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn't allowed to go.
- Kate Atkinson on Education
- My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.
- Nicholas Negroponte on Education
- My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.
- Clarence Thomas on Education
- My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children's education.
- My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.
- Daniel Goleman on Education
- My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
- Robert M. Hutchins on Education
- My idea of the ideal sex education site doesn't exist.
- Susie Bright on Education
- My job is to make sure that if you're a family in Florida, your children can get a good education and you have the opportunity for a job. That's my job and that's what I think about every day.
- Rick Scott on Education
- My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.
- Jennifer Garner on Education
- My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
- Adam Carolla on Education
- My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents.
- Jennifer Garner on Education
- My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.
- Matt Damon on Education
- My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics.
- Sloane Crosley on Education
- My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
- Maya Angelou on Education
- My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.
- Twyla Tharp on Education
- My mother was born on a tiny farm in County Mayo. She was meant to stay at home and look after the farm while her brother and sister got an education. However, she came to England on a visit and never went back.
- Julie Walters on 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.
- John H. Johnson on Education
- My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
- George Washington on Education
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