Top 100 Quotes About A Good Education
#1. Ah! If nations could only agree to employ their resources to perfect agriculture and improve transportation, and to bring all their girl children a good education, what an explosion of happiness there would be on earth!
Rosa Bonheur
#2. A good education prepares you well for anything.
Marv Levy
#4. Loneliness is a good education. You learn the things no crowds can teach and you discover the things no crowds can give.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#5. I will never be a stupid girl ... and neither should you. Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before ... it's also much easier
and much more fun. A good education is one of the greatest gifts you could ever give yourself.
Pink
#6. I've had no money, absolutely, from my family. They paid for a good education - or schools that purported to be a good education - but, um, not a dime.
Whit Stillman
#7. The last thing we need to do, relating to teachers, is the key to a good education in this country is a strong teacher. I would have a minimum wage for all our teachers, $40,000 per year.
Bill Richardson
#8. A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.
Ann Plato
#9. I believe in getting a good education to be able to go out into the world and make a difference.
Kimberly Elise
#10. I am not a fairy godmother or anything of that sort, but I hope to give you a happy home and a good education, and to send you out into the world true, brave, generous men, prepared to serve God truly all the days of your life."
~Aunt Persis
Constance Savery
#11. Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.
Michelle Obama
#12. The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film - whether it's history, psychology, economics, or architecture - so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn't going to help you unless you have something to say.
George Lucas
#13. The more efficient causes of progress seem to consist of a good education during youth whilst the brain is impressible, and of a high standard of excellence, inculcated by the ablest and best men, embodied in the laws, customs and traditions of the nation, and enforced by public opinion.
Charles Darwin
#14. It is not beyond our power to create a world in which all children have access to a good education.
Nelson Mandela
#15. If you want a good education, go to private schools. If you can't afford it, tough luck. You can go to the public school.
Paul LePage
#16. A good education teaches you how to ask a question. It's knowing what you don't know; the skills of critical thought.
Ted Sizer
#17. When it comes to sending my children to college, I want the best education. It's the only thing I'm really leaving them - a good education.
Sloan Wilson
#18. I want to make sure that all kids get a good education and enjoy what they learn.
Patty Murray
#19. I was raised to respect books - the house was full of them. From the time I was little, it was drummed into our heads that books were almost the most important thing in the world, second only to getting a good education.
Martha Southgate
#20. Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized; in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their children a good education.
Simon Van Der Meer
#21. I lived in a project and ... didn't have a good education. But ... I'd listen to the preacher, who said that God would show me the way. Everything starts from that confidence.
Evander Holyfield
#22. I grew up in a very progressive family and with a great educational system, and I asked myself, 'Why doesn't everybody have these opportunities for a good education? So why not give back to these kids who didn't grow up with the same privileges I had?'
Erin Gruwell
#23. I loved growing up in Canada. It's a great place to grow up, because - well, at least where I grew up - it's very multicultural. There's also good health care and a good education system.
Ryan Gosling
#24. In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity - it is a prerequisite.
Barack Obama
#25. I believe technology will continue to become more affordable and more people will have the chance to use it. This will help more people get medical care and a good education.
Bill Gates
#26. That's the trouble with stories. People start out fantastic. You think they're extraordinary, but it turns out as the work goes along, they're just average with a good education.
Grace Paley
#27. I grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. My mother was a secretary. Neither of them got through high school. But they worked hard and they gave me very, very important opportunities to go to school, get a good education.
Dick Gephardt
#28. A father gives his child nothing better than a good education
Anonymous
#29. A good education isn't the same thing as making the whole damn world something to be explained!
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#30. Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.
Armstrong Williams
#31. Mum was an absolutely determined woman. She was determined I would have a good education, and they went without all sorts of things to ensure it.
Joan Kirner
#32. I have been luckier than anyone I know or even heard of. I had a very happy childhood, a good education, I enjoyed working as a teacher, journalist and author. I have loved a wonderful man for over 33 years, and I believe he loves me, too.
Maeve Binchy
#33. A good education gives you confidence to stick up your hand for anything - whether it is the job you want, or the bloke. And the more you stick up your hand, the better your chances are that you will get what you want.
Kate Reardon
#34. Nobody wants to pay higher taxes. But do you want your kids to get a good education? You have to pay for that. Do you want Medicare for senior citizens? I do. We have to pay for it.
Shelley Berkley
#35. In business, I loved cars. I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning. Only in America can you decide to get a good education and pursue what you like.
Lee Iacocca
#36. The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.
Stanley Fish
#37. The best contraceptive in the world is a good education.
Joycelyn Elders
#38. A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.
John Grogan
#39. If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.
Thomas Jefferson
#40. Now, a good education is about so much more than just learning geometry or memorizing dates in history. All of that is important, but an education is also about exploring new things
discovering what makes you come alive, and then being your best at whatever you choose
Michelle Obama
#41. A good education is the most important gift we can give our young people.
Nicola Sturgeon
#42. Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.
Edsger Dijkstra
#43. Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.
Alan K. Simpson
#45. There is not a good work which the hand of man has ever undertaken, which his heart has ever conceived, which does not require a good education for its helper.
Horace Mann
#46. If you're going to have a satisfactory standard of living, you're going to have to be competitive in this world. And you can't be competitive if you don't have a good education.
Bob McNair
#47. A good education helps us make sense of the world and find our way in it
Mike Rose
#48. I did what I did not to make money but to help prevent the defeat of a new system which had, at great cost, given ordinary people food and fares which they could afford, a good education and a health service.
Melita Norwood
#49. country devoid of natural resources, but which enjoys peace, a fair judicial system and a free government is likely to receive a high credit rating. As such, it may be able to raise enough cheap capital to support a good education system and foster a flourishing high-tech industry. The
Yuval Noah Harari
#50. A good education is another name for happiness.
Ann Plato
#51. Each man is a good education to himself, provided he has the capacity to spy on himself from close up.
Sarah Bakewell
#52. I think of it as a good opportunity to let, in particular, school kids know that this job and other interesting jobs in science and engineering are open to anyone who works hard in school and gets a good education and studies math and science. And that it's not just for a select group of people.
Ellen Ochoa
#53. My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
Margaret Mead
#54. Scholarships that allow students to get a good education are important, but first we want to measure the progress that the schools are teaching our students, we want to hold them accountable for the progress, we want to hold the schools accountable for teaching the young people in America.
Andrew Card
#56. It is one proof of a good education and of true refinement of feeling, to respect antiquity.
Sigourney Weaver
#57. In Egypt, every family is suffering from the deteriorated schooling and university system of the Mubarak regime. What families want most of all is to secure a good education for their children.
Ahmed Zewail
#58. A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth.
Helen Keller
#59. A good education is a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, because each enrich the other. The accumulation of knowledge, while fascinating in itself, is not sufficient without action
Howard Zinn
#60. Nothing is more important than a good education.
Roy Wilkins
#61. You can't have a competitive, egalitarian meritocracy if only some of your citizens have the opportunity for a good education.
Rupert Murdoch
#62. I would rather have a good education and no money, than to have a fortune and be ignorant.
George Armstrong Custer
#63. I think investing in a good education has been key for me, although the investment was more in time than money.
Nouriel Roubini
#64. It seemed a fitting way to end my teaching career. I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other.
Howard Zinn
#65. The biggest thing that I felt basketball could do for me was help me get a good education.
Julius Erving
#66. Education does loads of things for girls that won't surprise you at all - it provides self-esteem, teaches important life skills, and offers the kinds of choices a good education can give anyone.
Richard E. Robbins
#67. My job is to make sure that if you're a family in Florida, your children can get a good education and you have the opportunity for a job. That's my job and that's what I think about every day.
Rick Scott
#68. A good education is the greatest gift you can give yourself or anyone else.
Mahtab Narsimhan
#69. I should care about the education a child in Philadelphia, or Pittsburgh, or Erie, or Scranton received because if they didn't get a good education my life is diminished and all of our lives are enhanced if they get that good education. It is a shared enterprise and we need to recognize that.
Tom Wolf
#70. 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
#71. The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.
Alphonso Jackson
#72. A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.
Plato
#73. Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself.
John Sununu
#74. Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program.
Aaron Schock
#75. It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.
Henry David Thoreau
#76. If I can look at your zip code and I can tell whether you're going to get a good education, we've got a real problem.
Condoleezza Rice
#77. A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.
Bernard Iddings Bell
#78. You take a poor black child. Give him a good education, tell him he's somebody, that God didn't create junk when he created him, and that black child will create his own affirmative action.
J. C. Watts
#79. I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was anxious for me to acquire a good education and follow in his footsteps.
Sigrid Undset
#80. A good education should leave much to be desired.
Alan Gregg
#81. A good education prepares a child to be a good employee and a good citizen-in that order, with the importance of the former never exceeding the importance of the latter.
Cullen Hightower
#83. President Obama is a principled man who has worked hard to put healthcare and a good education in the reach of millions of Americans and believes that everyone who works hard and plays by the rules, should have a fair shot at the American dream.
Cristina Saralegui
#84. Teachers don't just teach; they can be vital personalities who help young people to mature, to understand the world, and to understand themselves. A good education consists of much more than useful facts and marketable skills.
Charles Platt
#85. A dynamic economy begins with a good education.
Bob Taft
#86. I'm essentially a momma's boy with a good education.
Tom Sizemore
#87. A Good Education Removes the Barriers Between Rich and Poor
Orhan Pamuk
#88. A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
Agnes De Mille
#89. I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#90. We were arguing about what was good to deal with making education fairer, diverse and more American. We were not arguing about where black scientists get a good education.
Chris Hayes
#91. Women tend to break the network of friends they make, but it is a habit that men have learned. It is an approach to life that involves planning almost without thinking about it. And men sustain this. I came from a northern grammar school. I had a good education, but I didn't have a good network.
Pauline Neville-Jones
#92. One cannot get rid of a good education, nor, unfortunately, of a bad one, which often is such because one has not wanted to defray the expenses of a good one.
Denis Diderot
#93. While no real money came down, my family gave me a good education and a marvelous example of how people should behave, and in the end that was more valuable than money. Being surrounded by the right values from the beginning is an immense treasure. Warrenhad that. It even has a financial advantage.
Charlie Munger
#94. I think that a good education ought to be in part the idea that ease and joy are not synonymous. Some of the most fulfilling pleasures of life are to be found in work - found in work you love to do, work you want to do, work that makes you want to get out of bed in the morning.
David McCullough
#95. Dreams do come true, but not without the help of others, a good education, a strong work ethic, and the courage to lean in.
Ursula Burns
#96. You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education.
Robert Vaughn
#97. Mom put a note in my lunch again, I see ... Dear son, I hope you will study hard in summer school ... Do not look upon it as a punishment, but rather as a privilege ... We are very proud of you, and want you to have a good education. This note will self-destruct in five seconds.
Charles M. Schulz
#98. I was delighted to see him growing more cautious and skeptical about what he heard, especially when he heard it from someone in apparent authority. I think that is fundamental to a good education. And if it comes back to bite me from time to time, that's a price worth paying.
Martine Millman
#99. I think if I had to put a finger on what I consider a good education, a good radical education, it wouldn't be anything about methods or techniques. It would be loving people first.
Myles Horton
#100. My parents would take my sister and me out for dinner now and then, and while waiting for the food to be served, would point out the oldest, most harried looking waitress in the place, saying sternly, Be sure you get a good education, so you don't have to do that when you're fifty!
Diana Gabaldon
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