3 December 2020 Kathleen Turner What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God’s name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?
3 December 2020 Donna Brazile Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.
3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.
3 December 2020 William Congreve ‘Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
3 December 2020 Mike Pence My votes against the education bill and my votes against the Medicare bill got huge play at home.
3 December 2020 Dennis Miller The American education system couldn’t be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Kozol Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States.
3 December 2020 Barbara Boxer Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate… We stand together on so many issues: economic prosperity, quality education for all, protecting a woman’s right to choose.
3 December 2020 B. F. Skinner Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
3 December 2020 Carl Sagan I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
3 December 2020 Kate Atkinson 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.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
3 December 2020 Ron Silver I’ve seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I’ve seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit.
3 December 2020 Al McGuire I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
3 December 2020 Susana Martinez I hope I’ve been able to show other young girls that as long as you work hard and you’re committed to fight for your education, that anything’s possible.
3 December 2020 Robert M. Hutchins A liberal education… frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
3 December 2020 Ryan White Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.
3 December 2020 Joel Coen Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.
3 December 2020 Malcolm Forbes The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
3 December 2020 William James The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
3 December 2020 Toni Morrison There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.
3 December 2020 Ai Weiwei When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.
3 December 2020 Ron Lewis The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students.
3 December 2020 Stephen Vizinczey Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
