Education Quotes

State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for higher education. Colleges, in turn, answer these funding cuts with tuition hikes.
Arne Duncan

Struggle, Lost, Less

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

Children, May, Friends

I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive.
Joseph Lancaster

Society, Design, Made

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.
Bryant McGill

Yourself, Dangerous, Lesson

The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects.
Joseph Lancaster

Able, Public, Books

I have said it on several occasions, several times from this podium, that providing a quality education for our children is high on my priority list. I will not stop now.
Jane D. Hull

Children, Said, Times

Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations and their rights in areas like health, road safety and further education.
John Bruton

Work, Health, Moving

I know there are things I did in education that will never be reversed. I have not done that in film yet because I have only been here for about nine months.
Estelle Morris

Done, Here, Film

If bringing up the next generation is important, why aren't they the best qualified, the best paid? Why aren't we as concerned about their career progression as we are about those who work in the education or health services?
Estelle Morris

Work, Health, Best

At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.
Estelle Morris

Different, Social, Times

We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.
Estelle Morris

Made, Another, Progress

Where the private sector, or anyone else, has skills, knowledge and resources that can help to deliver a high quality of education and to raise standards, we should use them.
Estelle Morris

Knowledge, Help, Else

I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
Bill Walton

Music, Family, Art

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
Phillip E. Johnson

Democracy, Serious, Trouble

A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.
Pierre Salinger

President, United, Criticize

It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.
Hans-Georg Gadamer

True, Clear, Historical

In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.
James Payn

Universal, England, Literary

When you Google me, you'll find a lot of people don't like Richard Dreyfuss. Because I'm cocky and I present a cocky attitude. But no one has ever disagreed with the notion I represent, that we need more civic education. So far there's 100 percent support for that.
Richard Dreyfuss

Attitude, Find, Far

I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
Larry Niven

System, Works, Repair

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.
Sidney Blumenthal

Child, Leave, Act

I feel like in America, we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education.
Alonzo Mourning

America, Problem, Place

I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.
Kent McCord

Needs, Grades, Courses

I studied secondary education.
Jim McKay

Secondary, Studied

I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist.
Richard Cobden

Success, Country, Idea

In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.
Richard Cobden

Same, Found, Religious

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