The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.
~ Grace Abbott
Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.
~ Herbert Hoover
There's no reason why children in inner cities or rural areas do not receive the same quality education or opportunities as those in suburbs or wealthy neighborhoods. If we truly believe in giving all citizens a chance to pursue happiness and pursue their goals, then we cannot continue to marginalize entire groups of people.
~ Al Sharpton
The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.
~ Mortimer Adler
A good education is another name for happiness.
~ Ann Plato
For women, the important ingredients for happiness are to forge an identity, serve the Lord, get an education, develop your talents, serve your family, and, if possible, to have a family of your own.
~ James E. Faust
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
~ Bertrand Russell
For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere.
~ Bruce Springsteen
The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.
~ David Bailey
Education, family, character, intelligence, humility, okay? These are the things that make a culture live.
~ Jim Brown
One may have broad or narrow talents, but only education renders them useful. Schools set up to train people will develop the intelligence of those who have it and end the stupidity of those who do not, providing a specialty to those who have narrow talent and broad knowledge to those with all-around ability.
~ Sun Yat-Sen
My great-grandfather was a man of great vision, drive, and native intelligence, with some human flaws amplified by limited education, limited social range, and questionable influence from some of his advisers.
~ William Clay Ford
Training and education is one and the same: that is, to train the mind through a discipline in order to awake the inner intelligence of the individuals.
~ Lobsang Tenzin
In order to defend the Chinese race, one must first defend the Confucian culture; and in order to defend the Confucian culture, one must first defend the State. This is because what preserves the race relies upon intelligence, which is in turn nurtured by Confucian education.
~ Zhang Zhidong
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
~ Kofi Annan
My family is everything. I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.
~ Ronaldinho
My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education.
~ Ronnie James Dio
That's the beauty of education, kids taking lessons out of the classroom and back into their own world where they can positively affect their family, their friends, and their greater community.
~ Erin Gruwell
I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges.
~ Taslima Nasrin
We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.
~ Dan Quayle
Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work, not on how many dollars your family has in their bank account.
~ Dave Obey
A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
~ Robert M. Hutchins
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
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
~ Booker T. Washington
Education in India has made monumental progress since Independence but continues to face daunting challenges at multiple levels, particularly in terms of quality, infrastructure and dropout rates. We have islands of excellence floating in a sea of mediocrity.
~ Shashi Tharoor
Senator Udall focused his entire campaign as a social-issues warrior, and that was rejected by the people of Colorado, who embraced our plan of creating jobs and opportunity, growing energy independence, looking at education opportunities for the future, and making sure we're focused on protecting this great Colorado environment.
~ Cory Gardner
I'd rather have the influence than the power, and the influence to me is to build institutions of independence and democracy, to regain for Egypt prestige in education and science and technology.
~ Ahmed Zewail
Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.
~ Jim Demint
The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure.
~ Valerie Jarrett
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
I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.
~ Susie Bright
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
~ Albert Einstein
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
~ Anthony J. D'angelo
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
~ Abigail Adams
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
Standardized testing is at cross purposes with many of the most important purposes of public education. It doesn't measure big-picture learning, critical thinking, perseverance, problem solving, creativity or curiosity, yet those are the qualities great teaching brings out in a student.
~ Randi Weingarten
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
