Education Quotes

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

~ Noam Chomsky

I think a lot of people will be liberated from a lot of oppressive manufacturing jobs, or a lot of service jobs, because they'll be done by computers. There'll be the world's best education available online and free.

~ Tyler Cowen

The most used program in computers and education is PowerPoint. What are you learning about the nature of the medium by knowing how do to a great PowerPoint presentation? Nothing. It certainly doesn't teach you how to think critically about living in a culture of simulation.

~ Sherry Turkle

We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.

~ Nicholas Negroponte

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.

~ Kent Conrad

Maths is fundamentally a different process in education than it is in the real world. There is an insistence that we do maths by hand when most of it is done by computers. The idea that you have to do everything by hand before you can operate a computer is nonsense.

~ Conrad Wolfram

There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.

~ Howard Aiken

An education system suits some more than others. It can lead you out into life or lead you on a wild goose chase. It can help to make you miserable, or dull and nasty and insipid, or profoundly stupid in the special way that 'brainy' people can be.

~ Michael Leunig

The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to be self-taught.

~ Maximillian Degenerez

I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.

~ Jack Bowman

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

~ William S. Burroughs

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

~ William Bennett

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

~ Plato

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

~ John F. Kennedy

From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.

~ Dick Cheney

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

~ Norman Cousins

While we should certainly be investing in our own STEM education, we should take advantage of the thousands of international students who come here to study and are ready to fill these gaps immediately upon graduation.

~ Brad Feld

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

~ H. G. Wells

I did get a degree in special education.

~ Clay Aiken

It's not how much you spend, it's how you spend it. We have been putting a lot of money into education in the state of Nevada, and it's gotten us to 50th in the country in graduation rates. We needed more accountability in our system.

~ Brian Sandoval

When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.

~ Angela Bassett

My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.

~ Jillian Bach

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

~ Michael Jackson

The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don't necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination.

~ Bill Rancic

The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.

~ Mitt Romney

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue - it's personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

~ Michelle Obama

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

~ Evan Esar

What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

~ C. S. Lewis

I think African Americans are resilient and hustlers by nature. I think they need to understand that you can take that hustle to the boardroom, but it has to be an education process.

~ Daymond John

Nature has always had more force than education.

~ Voltaire

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

~ Henry Adams

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

~ Edward Thorndike

You could get an entire computer science education for free right now.

~ Sebastian Thrun

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

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just 'virtual reality.'

~ Martin Rees

I think the combination of graduate education in a field like Computer Science and the opportunity to apply this in a work environment like Microsoft is what drove me. The impact these opportunities create can lead to work that has broad, worldwide impact.

~ Satya Nadella

Fine arts education in public schools is really abysmal. The same emphasis should be put on music, theater, dance - anything creative - that's put on math and science.

~ Maren Morris

Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.

~ Charles Vest

Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future.

~ Ahmed Zewail