Education Quotes

I grew up hearing stories about how my maternal grandfather had put himself through engineering school in New York City. He saved money by walking down to a gas station once a week to take a shower. When I applied to college, both education and inves...

Jason Kilar

The changing economic situation, the changing global market means it is understandable that employers are constantly raising the bar. It is challenging the education system to come up with ever higher standards to meet the expectation of employers.

Jim Knight

Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.

Jim Yong Kim

I was very happy being education minister and deputy to John Cain.

Joan Kirner

An amateur can be great in front of the camera, but you need an education to get on stage where you have full control as an actor.

Joel Kinnaman

All of our colleges are free in Sweden, but this acting program is the second most expensive education for the government. It's difficult to get in. There are around 1,500 applicants, and 10-12 applicants are accepted each year. I was accepted, and I...

Joel Kinnaman

Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.

John Agyekum Kufuor

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

John F. Kennedy

A child miseducated is a child lost.

John F. Kennedy

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

John F. Kennedy

The Internet will save higher education, but it may kill your alma mater.

John Katzman

The Internet is the first technology since the printing press which could lower the cost of a great education and, in doing so, make that cost-benefit analysis much easier for most students. It could allow American schools to service twice as many st...

John Katzman

It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's...

John Keegan

We must revamp K-12 education law to ensure Washington does not stand in the way of meaningful reforms.

John Kline

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

John Maynard Keynes

Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States.

Jonathan Kozol

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.

Jonathan Kozol

During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.

Jonathan Kozol

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

Jonathan Kozol

Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime.

Jonathan Kozol

I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.

Jonathan Kozol