Achievement Education Quotes

#1. For someone bent on achievement, education is a thing you get past and forget about as quickly as possible.

Daniel Quinn

#2. A system that sets people against each other fundamentally misunderstands the dynamics that drive achievement. Education thrives on partnership and collaboration - within schools, between schools, and with other groups and organizations.

Ken Robinson

#3. A willing soul will keenly go the length, breadth and depth to fulfill the dream.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. From 1801, Napoleon began an ambitious programme of civil reform to standardise law and justice, centralise education, introduce uniform weights and measures and a fully functioning internal market. That achievement alone makes him one of the giants of history.

Saul David

#5. This (scanning project) is our chance to one-up the Greeks! It is really possible with the technology of today, not tomorrow. We can provide all the works of humankind to all the people of the world. It will be an achievement remembered for all time, like putting a man on the moon.

Brewster Kahle

#6. I want to see a New Story education, which is not only about intellectual knowledge - not only about measurement - not only about academic achievement. It is also about heart, feelings, emotions, relationship, love, compassion, generosity, beauty. All these values are part of the heart.

Satish Kumar

#7. Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

Bill Gates

#8. For the individual, education is the path to achievement and fulfillment; for the nation, it is a path to a society that is not only free but civilized; and for the world, it is the path to peace - for it is education that places reason over force.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#9. Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve.

Michael Gove

#10. Our dreams and imagination set the limits of our achievement.

Debasish Mridha

#11. Education is inoculation against disruption.

Robin Sharma

#12. Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

Ken Robinson

#13. Texas is a national leader in education reform and student achievement. Through our college- and career-ready standards and assessments, strong school accountability, and a focus on educator development, we have created an education system that prepares our students for success after graduation.

Rick Perry

#14. The achievement of dreams demands 100 percent dedication.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field - no matter how rich or poor, tall or short, pretty or ugly to the bone, if you can draw, you can find personal fulfillment and build self-confidence. Art is the highest achievement of mankind.

Lynda Resnick

#16. We are in the process of disabling our most distinctive achievement - our educational system - in the name of making the country more like itself.

Marilynne Robinson

#17. Personal force, determined spirit and self confidence are your greatest self.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. You can fly as high as you can.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. The human species took a crucial step forward when its vocal musculature came under operant control in the production of speech sounds. Indeed, it is possible that all the distinctive achievements of the species can be traced to that one genetic change.

B.F. Skinner

#20. Personal power depends on the power of imagination; personal achievement depends on commitment and conviction.

Debasish Mridha

#21. Success is a steadily progress.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. But my biggest joy and best education and proudest achievement has been being able to show up for work and life and not cause too much trouble a day at a time in spite of my hysterical, somewhat dramatic, nature.

Mark Vonnegut

#23. Let your passion fuel your perseverance.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. The cognitive skills prized by the American educational establishment and measured by achievement tests are only part of what is required for success in life. Character skills are equally important determinants of wages, education, health and many other significant aspects of flourishing lives.

James Heckman

#25. You have to work harder to achieve your goals

Lailah Gifty Akita

#26. There is a price to be paid for any accomplishment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#27. I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fallen in love with the architecture. It certainly wasn't out of some great sense of academic or intellectual achievement. In many ways, my education only began after I'd left university.

Alan Bennett

#28. No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a capstone to adolescent party time.

William A. Henry III

#29. Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity

Thomas Jefferson

#30. You have to go head, even if no one goes with you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#31. What values do achievement, degrees, and diplomas have if you don't have wisdom and love?

Debasish Mridha

#32. With a clear vision you will arrive at your define-destination.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#33. Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education.

Richard Livingstone

#34. Expectations define achievement.

Debasish Mridha

#35. The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.

Eric Hoffer

#36. Higher education should be based on quality, not quantity; receive merit-based funding; and be free of unnecessary bureaucracy. Not the least of the benefits of educational reform is to foster the pride of achievement at national and international levels.

Ahmed Zewail

#37. Education is the great engine to personal development.

Nelson Mandela

#38. Celebrate every small achievement and gain strength for grandeur things.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#39. The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.

James Stockdale

#40. I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years," she announced with some small sense of achievement. "I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade.

Jasper Fforde

#41. A determined soul and indomitable spirit are necessary for any achievement.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#42. The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education is free. France, education is free.

Noam Chomsky

#43. The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education.

E.D. Hirsch Jr.

#44. God's greatest gift to mankind is our intellect. Even for those of you who are not of the faithful, the sheer logic alone cannot be denied. Education lifts a people to greater ability and achievement.

Aleksandra Layland

#45. During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.

Jonathan Kozol