Education Quotes

Optimizing return on capital will generate less growth than optimizing return on education.

Clayton Christensen

For 300 years, higher education was not disruptable because there was no technological core.

Clayton Christensen

People think I have the benefit of a public school education. I have this suave and debonair label, but really, I'm as common as muck.

Charles Dance

In the 1970s, New York City defaulted on its debt, and yes, the consequences were painful. Enrollment plummeted at City University campuses, which until then had offered free education. Seven thousand police officers were laid off. Crime skyrocketed....

Charles Duhigg

Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.

Christopher Dodd

I'm a proponent of single-payer health-care, public education, protecting the environment - all the things Democrats rally around.

Cynthia Dill

The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable.

Chaka Fattah

Indeed, while so much in education reform can divide activists into warring camps, expanding learning time unites reformers around a shared vision of bringing excellence and breadth to our nation's most impoverished and struggling schools.

Chris Gabrieli

I do think that a school day that matches the work day makes a lot of difference for working families, but the big driver of this effort is education. Period. We have a lot of students not gaining the skills they need, and it is pretty clear that sch...

Chris Gabrieli

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.

Christine Gregoire

Education exposes young people to a broader world, a world full of opportunity and hope.

Christine Gregoire

Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.

Christine Gregoire

One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so.

Christine Gregoire

I've teamed up with one of the headmasters at Eton College, and we're spearheading a kind of 'slow education movement in Britain'. It's based on this idea of moving away from the fast-food approach to learning and going to something deeper, more wool...

Carl Honore

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.

Charles Handy

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

Christopher Hitchens

As we get closer to the end of this Congress, we should be addressing the urgent needs of the American people - the war in Iraq, affordable health care, a sensible energy policy, quality education for our children, retirement security, and a sound an...

Chris Van Hollen

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.

Chris Van Hollen

Dr. Margaret Oda, a true trailblazer in education, served as Honolulu school district superintendent and was the driving force behind the middle-school concept and the first chairwoman of the Japanese American National Museum.

Colleen Hanabusa

You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.

Conrad Hall

To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.

Caroline Kennedy