Top 100 An Education Quotes
#2. Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.
Daniel Keyes
#3. This was a far cry from the meritocratic Ottoman period, when only by dint of an education could a man of humble background hope to rise through the ranks, get rich, and become a pasha.
Orhan Pamuk
#4. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#5. selling my soul for student loans and an education.
Shareca Cole.
#6. Session musicians kind of respected me because what I was talking about made sense. That all came from an education. Believe me, education does you more good. Maybe that's the reason I've been around so long.
Bobby Vinton
#7. It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it.
John Dewey
#8. I'm not a statistician, but it doesn't take a genious to work out that 100 million children being denied an education is ridiculous. There is nothing lost in translation here, it's obvious that's wrong.
Scarlett Johansson
#9. I would much rather be considered wise than smart. But, I still think it is wise to get an education.
Destiny Booze
#10. I basically got an education in software on DuPont's money because they were too stubborn to admit that a recession was coming.
Michael J. Saylor
#11. The primary school I attended in Shanghai was a very liberal one, established by scholars who had return from an education in France. The children of leading families were enrolled there, including the son of a well-known man believed to be a top gangster of the underworld!
Charles K. Kao
#12. The fact I have an education forms my lyrical style, I'm sure. I studied the social sciences, history, stuff like that. I have an interest in politics, which maybe works its way into the songs in small, subtle ways.
Dean Wareham
#14. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.
Albert Einstein
#15. Getting an education is the best journey to unfold your own beauty.
Debasish Mridha
#16. Going to school- picking an apple Getting an education- eating it
E.L. Konigsburg
#17. I found out later than even an education and a cushioned introduction to power cannot make a great leader.
Fredrik Nath
#18. 'Friends' was an education in intelligent comedic banter; in intelligent vernacular. It was an education in scene study. It was an education in group dynamic. I came out of there with a master's degree in comedy.
Matt LeBlanc
#19. The life of a Christian is an education for higher service.
Corrie Ten Boom
#20. But even if there were no threat, I believe that I must get an education to strengthen myself for the fight I will surely have against ignorance and terrorism.
Malala Yousafzai
#21. An education capable of saving humanity is no small undertaking; it involves the spiritual development of man, the enhancement of his value as an individual, and the preparation of young people to understand the times in which they live.
Maria Montessori
#22. The free worker receives a wage; the slave an education, food, care, clothing; the money that the master spends to keep the slave is drained little by little and in detail; one hardly perceives it.1
Alexis De Tocqueville
#23. My father hauled boxes so I could get an education and earn enough money to pay someone to make me lift weights.
Dana Gould
#24. My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA.
David Oyelowo
#25. Education truly can change a person's story, it gave me everything. Whatever happens, get an # education .
Atiku Abubakar
#26. A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her back. A sound advantage, I should think.
Anne Bishop
#27. I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
Alice James
#28. You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.
Josephine Baker
#29. Every relationship is an education.
Each new person we welcome into our hearts is a chance to evolve into something radically different than we used to be.
Brian K. Vaughan
#30. I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Wilson Mizner
#31. Every single one of you has something you're good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. That's the opportunity an education can provide.
Barack Obama
#32. Girl Up gives girls an opportunity and gives them a platform and starting point through which they can take it and run with it and help give girls the opportunity to have the freedom, independence and the ability to get an education.
Katherine McNamara
#33. I'm not a policy expert - I am only arguing that there is more to an education than an economic ticket.
Rebecca Mead
#34. It is not the job of the Department of Education to maximize profits for the government at the cost of squeezing students who are struggling to get an education.
Elizabeth Warren
#35. I have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it.
Flannery O'Connor
#37. If the people would but analyze the human equation of a prison they might better account for the crimes that are visited upon them in cities, towns, and hamlets, ofttimes by men who graduated with an education and equipment for just that sort of retributive service from some penal institution.
Eugene V. Debs
#38. Giving a child an education is by far one of the most important investments we can make.
Usher
#39. These children and their parents know that getting an education is not only their right, but a passport to a better future - for the children and for the country.
Harry Belafonte
#40. It was a surprise, and a delight, to see children devour books. Without ever knowing it, they were receiving an education.
Pat Frank
#41. I'm not an education expert, and frankly I don't want to make education decisions for our state. But I am experienced at successfully managing organizations, and putting people on a path where they can succeed.
Linda Lingle
#42. My husband had an education. He had a degree in Literature. I married into a camp of literary types.
Joni Mitchell
#43. Why do we assume that educating a criminal is merely helping him commit more sophisticated crimes? Why can't we assume that an education can give this person the tools to make more acceptable choices?
Laura Bates
#44. What we need is an education system that works for every child, not a select few. This starts with providing a quality education for our youngest Americans so they can learn, grow, and become prosperous citizens.
Marc Veasey
#45. Any education that doesn't allow you to think freely is not an education but a prison.
Debasish Mridha
#46. Reproductive choice is not some trendy item to toss or keep around the house. If you cannot get an education or a job, if you cannot choose what will or will not happen with your own body, then what freedom do you have?
June Jordan
#48. And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.
Sam Donaldson
#49. His work was more of an education than a classroom could ever offer.
Helene Wecker
#50. To criminally prosecute a child not old enough to go to the school prom makes no sense, you get much more cooperation from a victim if you give them a safe harbor, a place to live, job training, an education.
Amy Klobuchar
#51. I am an education ambassador, mainly working with schools.
Daley Thompson
#52. Everyone has a right to a job, everyone has a right to an education, everyone has a right to health care, everyone has a right to retirement security, everyone has a right to housing, and everyone has a right to peace.
Dennis Kucinich
#53. Socially, the Cuban revolution created an education system and health service that remain the envy of much of the neo-liberal world.
Tariq Ali
#54. Society is itself an education in the extrovert values, and rarely has there been a society that has preached them so hard. No man is an island, but how John Donne would writhe to hear how often, and for what reasons, the thought is so tiresomely repeated.
William H. Whyte
#55. 'm just going to be a good friend to my kid. One thing I definitely want to change is that whole 'I don't want you to make the same mistakes' mentality. My dad didn't have much money growing up; he didn't have much of an education. He forced that on me, and I didn't want it.
Channing Tatum
#56. If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
Frank Zappa
#57. Families want their child to get an education; families want safe access to healthcare; families want a roof over their head. When we silo issues, we end up with solutions that are in conflict with each other.
Cameron Sinclair
#58. Harvard gave me an education, but Junior Chamber gave me an education for life.
John F. Kennedy
#59. To deny someone an education is not just a crime but a sin, because you are denying that person the opportunity to realize who he or she is meant to be.
Firoozeh Dumas
#60. A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness.
Susan Sontag
#61. An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment.
Allan Bloom
#62. In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.
Earl Warren
#63. I found in direct selling companies an education system designed to draw out the rich person in you.
Robert Kiyosaki
#64. The last year had been an education in how little having money really mattered. A rich Vagabond was a Vagabond still, and 'twas common knowledge that King Charles, during the Interregnum, had lived without money in Holland.
Neal Stephenson
#65. I did Wall Street, and then everything that happened with An Education took me up until March. I didn't want to work during that because there was just so much stuff. I didn't realize you had to go to so many parties. It was a nightmare! I had to go to all these parties! The glamour!
Carey Mulligan
#66. Let people have an education and you can't stop them.
La Monte Young
#67. Maybe one day there will finally be an education for electronic music.
Afrojack
#68. After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
I. King Jordan
#69. Somewhere in Rwanda, a rural farmer is dreaming of providing an education for her children. Not just high school, but maybe even a university degree. Such a dream used to seem out of reach.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
#70. What did it mean to, as our elders told us, "grow up and be somebody"? And what precisely did this have to do with an education rendered as rote discipline?
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#71. I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#72. Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream.
Larry Bucshon
#73. Dr Grantly is by no means a bad man; he is exactly the man which such an education as his was most likely to form; his intellect being sufficient for such a place in the world, but not sufficient to put him in advance of it.
Anthony Trollope
#74. Don't' call it a failure, call it an education. Some of us are very educated.
Rick Warren
#75. All around as a person, on right decisions, on holding your money, on doing your trade, a good education is a must. I don't think I would've done as good without an education.
Bobby Vinton
#76. I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.
David McCullough
#77. I was blessed to get an education available to few black women in Africa at that time. Every woman should be able to get an education so she can serve others.
Julia Mavimbela
#78. You can have great autonomy in the things you choose to learn and pursue on your own time. When you're learning things that interest you, challenge you, and make life worth living, getting an education can be blissful and stimulating.
Kate Bornstein
#79. When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body - it's a blessing.
Lou Gehrig
#80. Competitiveness is really what it costs you per man-hour to get you what you want. In other words, there's an education level that plays into the mix and so if it's inexpensive to buy an hour of real good education in places like China versus the U.S., that factors in.
Ray Dalio
#81. No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.
Lou Holtz
#82. An education is not something that you get, but something that you claim.
Adrienne Rich
#83. My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school.
Margaret Mead
#84. I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.
Kamala Harris
#85. Don't give up on the child. Give the child an education. Give them daily love.
Chris Burke
#86. Reverend Ipe realized that his daughter had by now developed a "reputation" and was unlikely to find a husband. He decided that since she couldn't have a husband there was no harm in her having an education.
Arundhati Roy
#87. There isn't an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why? Why not?
Ken Robinson
#88. Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.
Barbara Jordan
#89. We followed the bondage Bobbsey Twins across the crowded dance floor. Those leather shorts were an adventure from behind, let me tell you.
And the pictures of Elvis decorating the walls were an education, too. It wasn't often you ran into a bondage/Elvis/ whorehouse-themed vampire
club.
Charlaine Harris
#90. If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.
Patrick J. Kennedy
#91. He had offered some of his own background. A youth in the South. An education in the North. Bred for life in the East. Trying not to die in the West.
Mary Doria Russell
#92. What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?
Louis Sullivan
#94. Gary Cooper was a good friend. He was a great nature lover. He was like an American Indian, he knew every leaf that was turned over. It was an education to go for a walk with him.
Richard Widmark
#95. I was made acutely aware how far superior an education that stresses independent action and personal responsibility is to one that relies on drill, external authority and ambition.
Albert Einstein
#96. However you learn and whatever your circumstances, an education that prepares you for the world is every child's right.
Kandyse McClure
#97. Parents usually educate their children merely in such a manner than however bad the world may be, they may adapt themselves to its present conditions. But they ought to give them an education so much better than this, that a better condition of things may thereby be brought about by the future.
Immanuel Kant
#98. Taste is developed by the diversity of the products one can sample. I think our children today may be missing an education about food. We must teach them to know their cuisine and to know the equilibrium of nourishment. That is very important for health.
Joel Robuchon
#99. Because of the flexibility that community colleges afford, many students do not have to choose between an education and fulfilling other responsibilities - they can do both.
Jill Biden
#100. Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!
Jean Webster
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