3 December 2020 G. M. Trevelyan Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
3 December 2020 Karl Kraus Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
3 December 2020 Tallulah Bankhead Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there’s no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.
3 December 2020 Paul Wellstone Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.
3 December 2020 Debra Messing My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child.
3 December 2020 William Glasser If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.
3 December 2020 Christopher Bond Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.
3 December 2020 Spike Lee 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.
3 December 2020 Alphonso Jackson Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.
3 December 2020 Henry Bonilla Most Hispanics are concerned with the same issues other Americans are – the economy, jobs, education. Similar to Main Street America.
3 December 2020 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.
3 December 2020 Sparky Anderson I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that.
3 December 2020 Edmund Barton If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.
3 December 2020 Sargent Shriver Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.
3 December 2020 Bobby Scott Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.
3 December 2020 John Sununu Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself.
3 December 2020 Pierre Bourdieu The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren’t simply hobbies or minor influences.
3 December 2020 Matt Groening Our solution on ‘The Simpsons’ is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some frame of reference, can get. And for the ones who don’t, it doesn’t matter, because we have Homer banging his head and saying, ‘D’oh!’
3 December 2020 James Dyson I think if you have to pay for your education, you worry very seriously about you’re going to do when you’ve got your degree.
3 December 2020 George W. Bush Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.
3 December 2020 Judith Martin Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You’d be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.
3 December 2020 Aristotle It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
3 December 2020 Barbara Boxer I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman’s right to choose, a good public education system.
3 December 2020 Alexandre Dumas How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
