Education 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

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

~ Henry Adams

Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we've made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true.

~ Charles Vest

Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.

~ Geoffrey Canada

The U.S. can still maintain research institutions, such as Caltech, that are the envy of the world, yet it would be hubristic and naive to think that this position is sustainable without investing in science education and basic research.

~ Ahmed Zewail

I was a Social Science major in college, with an emphasis in secondary education. I took as many courses on the American colonial era and westward expansion as I could. This turned out to be wonderful preparation for writing fantasy novels.

~ Rae Carson

Kim Il Sung University is the central base for training national cadres and the highest institute of Juche-based science and education.

~ Kim Jong-Un

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

~ Carl Sagan

My education in the public schools of New York City between 1932 and 1944 was an excellent preparation for a life in science. Because of the Depression, these schools were able to attract a remarkably talented and dedicated collection of teachers who encouraged their students to strive for the highest levels of accomplishment.

~ Robert Fogel

It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.

~ Yuan T. Lee

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.

~ Solomon Ortiz

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

~ Sidney Hook

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

There's no question that a great teacher can make a huge difference in a student's achievement, and we need to recruit, train and reward more such teachers. But here's what some new studies are also showing: We need better parents. Parents more focused on their children's education can also make a huge difference in a student's achievement.

~ Thomas Friedman

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.

~ Maria Montessori

On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.

~ Nelson Mandela

I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.

~ Eva Longoria

But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students.

~ Roy Barnes

As a former high school teacher and a student in a class of 60 urchins at St. Brigid's grammar school, I know that education is all about discipline and motivation. Disadvantaged students need extra attention, a stable school environment, and enough teacher creativity to stimulate their imaginations. Those things are not expensive.

~ Bill O'reilly

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

~ Woody Allen

Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.

~ William Glasser

There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.

~ David Puttnam

My view, as one who taught it, is that the whole purpose of a literary education should be to tell people that these things exist. I don't think any teacher should try to 'teach an author,' but rather simply describe what the author has written. And this is what I tried to do.

~ Guy Davenport

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

I will venture to maintain that where the teacher is not pleasing to the pupil, there is no education.

~ Xenophon

This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.

~ William Glasser

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.

~ Oscar Hammerstein Ii

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

~ Anne Sullivan

My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics.

~ Sloane Crosley

My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.

~ Nick Cave

As an actor and as a performer, I've felt that the education system has really helped me in a lot of ways... there was always a teacher or a professor along the way that kept pushing me to the next stage.

~ Jimmy Smits

I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.

~ Dennis Quaid

As a former teacher and someone who has devoted her entire career to children and public schools, I understand the pain and frustration of parents who feel their children are not receiving the education they deserve.

~ Randi Weingarten

Merit pay has failed repeatedly, and it's no surprise. When you base teacher pay on standardized test scores, you won't improve education; you just promote the high-stakes testing craze that's led parents, students and educators to shout 'Enough!' all across the country.

~ Randi Weingarten

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.

~ Randi Weingarten

President Obama and Secretary Duncan have made stronger teacher evaluation a key part of their education reform efforts. Under their signature plan, called 'Race to the Top,' states can win federal support for schools by improving teacher evaluations.

~ Juan Williams

By continuing to increase teacher recruitment and training - and ameliorating wages and working conditions - we will be able to shore up the weaknesses of the French education system.

~ Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

I had a public school education - 3,000 kids when I was there. And there were a lot of teachers who would just sit there. You'd come in and sign your name and the teacher would just sit there at the head of the class and you would literally just have to stay in your seat for 40 minutes and that was the only thing you'd have to do in class.

~ Casey Affleck

My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high school diploma. I often think I so wish she'd come out of the hills in Appalachia and been able to go on to college. I think she would have made a wonderful teacher.

~ Dwight Yoakam

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

~ Joe Baca