“Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.”
Education is about more than classrooms and diplomas. These quotes challenge conventional thinking about learning, teaching, curiosity, and what it actually means to be educated — which, as several of these thinkers point out, has little to do with memorization.
“I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.”
“Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.”
“We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.”
“What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.”
“Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.”
“My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table I had a tremendous music education.”
“I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.”
“Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.”
“His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.”
“The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.”
“Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.”
“As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.”
“The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education.”