Famous Quotes About education

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

Education has fundamentally changed my life. It's perhaps the mission of my life. I'm wed to it in a very powerful and personal way. And I chose the pathway that I believe could make me the most significant on changing the outcomes that we see now in North Carolina.

I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you.

I'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up.

In Philadelphia, our public safety, poverty reduction, health and economic development all start with education. We can't grow the middle class if we don't give our kids the tools they need to innovate and invent.

What the mayors care about is, 'How can I get money to invest in the infrastructure in my city? How do we put people back to work, lower the unemployment rate, provide for job training programs? How do we make class sizes smaller and make investments in our children from an education standpoint?'

Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.

This journey is not over. Our education initiatives have so much momentum, and we're committed to sharing even more stories from the Arctic when we return.

I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that.

During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive.