Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" My father was Catholic, and my mother wanted me to go to Catholic school. That's what I did in first grade. But she couldn't afford the payments. I think it must have hurt her a lot, not to be able to give me a Catholic education. "

Related Quotes:

" The first education to be a good chemist is to do well in high school science courses. Then, you go to college to really become a chemist. You want to take science and math. Those are the main things. "

Mario J. Molina

Science

You

School

" For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete. "

" To my mind, the education of children - girl children, specifically - is what really creates an enlightened society. It creates a liberal society. "

" If you have four years to complete your college education, do it. "

" Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence men should be educated with special reference to the work. "

Timothy Thomas Fortune

Work

Mind

Men

" All over the world, we're seeing access to food, clean water, education and healthcare improve; as a result, global innovation is rising as well. "

" It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of those who control the power in that society. "

" The right to a quality education is, I believe, the perfect path to bridge the gap between different cultures and to reconcile various civilizations. Without such a right, the values of liberty, justice and equality will have no meaning. Ignorance is by far the biggest danger and threat to humankind. "

" After the liberation of Bangladesh in 1971, primary education was made free. We are now thinking to make education in the public sector free up to graduation level. We are also thinking of providing a light meal at primary and secondary schools in order to increase the student retention level. "

" The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not. "

" To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees. "

" My parents, of Belgian-German extraction, were Belgian nationals who had taken refuge in England during the war. They returned to Belgium in 1920, and I grew up in the cosmopolitan harbour city of Antwerp, at a time when education in the Flemish part of the country was still half French and half Flemish. "

Christian de Duve

City

War

" We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education. "

" Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations. "

" The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn. "

" Research shows that when women are empowered as political leaders, countries often experience higher standards of living with positive developments in education, infrastructure, and health care. "

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Positive

Women

Care

" At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence. "

" As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports. "

" I've worked in public education for 30 years - as a teacher, a lawyer and union leader. I've visited hundreds of schools and districts. I've seen leaders from the classroom to the national stage who have been willing to set aside their differences and do the hard work that's necessary to create real, enduring change. "

" You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself. "

" I am very much a person who likes to change with the times. Education is what it is all about. "

" While NCLB drove important progress on transparency and data disaggregation, I think it's clear that the status quo in public education is not working for our kids or our country. "

" We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being. "

" I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Virtue

Natural

Man

" Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system. "

" Being a native of Spain, the country to which I owe much of my education and cultural background, I was deeply influenced by my great predecessor Santiago Ramon y Cajal. "

" Never take your eye off the ball. Always remember that you and everyone on the team is the servant of the cause - in our case, girls' education and young women's leadership in Africa. "

" His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. "

" I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture. "

" The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values. "