Top 1200 College Education Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.

Mr. Obama seeks to federalize large portions of education, beginning with his attempt to nationalize college student loans.

I am impressed with the natural health programs at Nature Care College. Their dedication to quality education is truly inspiring.

For me, having the opportunity to go to college was very important. To miss out on an education is a loss.

I had dreamed about being a college coach for a long time, but with no education, I never thought I would get a chance.

There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very authentically looking for truth.

No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a capstone to adolescent party time.

Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.

High-quality education provided by MOOCs can be a significant factor in opening doors to opportunity—even among the college-educated.

Education for all up to 18, and lifelong learning beyond. That is a vision true to Ruskin - the man, the college, and the speech.

The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature infinitely more existential dread than frat parties had, but the opposite has been true for me. I'm much less likely to feel that gnawing fear of aimlessness and nihilism than I used to be and that's partly because education gave me job opportunities, but it's mostly because education gave me perspective and context.

Early college high schools in North Carolina and across the country show us that challenge - not remediation - is an approach to education that works.

History education in schools is so poor that students often enter college ignorant of the past - and leave just as unenlightened.

College radio is a very important medium that needs to survive in difficult economic times when some stations are being sold off and shut down. College radio is the future for broadcasting stars and pioneers of tomorrow, and we as a band, Coldplay, support the vital mission of college radio and we also support College Radio Day, the day when college radio comes together.

I'm pretty well-spoken guy, but I don't have a college education. Me making money in other avenues is not going to be as easy as walking into the Octagon.

Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.

I would certainly make the attendance in college paid for, at least at a community college level or a state - you know, a sponsored university level so that if you wanted to go to college and if you had the grades - you might not go to Harvard - but you went to college.

We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.

When I took admission in a medical college, I found that apart from the lack of education, what stopped girls from menstrual management was a limited access to sanitary pads.

When I went to college, it became more of a hobby, and that's when I think I got the realest music education. It wasn't something that I had to do. It wasn't an obligation.

The individual college youth cannot wait forever until the problem of his education is decided.

My own view is that the general education curriculum that a college picks has to be appropriate for the kind of student body that it has.

Working with George Miller was an education. It was eight college degrees in character development and directing all at once.

In college, I was an education major and qualified for several jobs. But the fame that came with the Olympic medals was too threatening to many people.

The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals.

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Too many high-school graduates are reflexively going to college as it is, without a clue what they are doing there or how to take advantage of higher education.

The purpose of a college education is to give you the correct view of minorities, and the means to live as far away from them as possible.

The strike and its outcome had an enormous impact on the system of education and on our lives as well. The strike began as a response to the college's refusal to hire Professor Nathan Hare [the so-called father of black studies], and certainly unified the college around issues of justice. These issues were reflected in many communities: the Asian American community, Hispanic community, Native American community.

There's a lot of reasons I didn't perform the way I could have in college. Going to college, I was a new parent, I lived in another state. I just wasn't mentally into it when I was in college.

I believe that education offers the fastest route to economic mobility. I grew up with a family of strong, accomplished, and educated women. I believe, as they say, that you can't be what you don't see, and since I saw a lot of smart women in my life, education being at the center, I just mimicked that behavior. There was never a question that I'd go to college. In fact, I was the last person in my family to get a master's degree, so that tells you I'm actually the underachiever!

Education is huge for me. I went to public school until I turned thirteen, and was lucky enough to afford college once I became successful as an actress. I cannot believe that quality education costs as much as it does in this country. Ghetto Film School is a remarkable public high school in New York City where students get to learn to express themselves through filmmaking, and have hands-on access to equipment.

I wish I'd gone to a small liberal-arts college where I'd have read the great books instead of a large university where I majored in early-childhood education.

The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.

Income inequality has made having kids, much like getting a quality college education, a rich person's privilege.

I wasnt using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.

Claude Hopkins.. maintained that nobody with a college education could write an advertisement addressed to the mass millions. That's absolute poppycock.

My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.

This is a value-added college education if I have heard one described. And what is the most remarkable about Delaware State University graduates - is they just keeping giving back.

As a first-generation college student, I know the hurdles that far too many people face in accessing quality, affordable higher education.

I went to Brooklyn College as an education major. It was a big deal in the family, but really, I was living for Mom and Dad.

I think the skyrocketing cost of a college education has placed it in the sphere of being a luxury-priced necessity.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Each and every student deserves equitable access to a quality public education that prepares them for college, career, and citizenship.

As the first member of my immediate family to graduate from college, making higher education more affordable and accessible is a top priority of mine.

The best way to deal with AIDS is through education. So we need a really widespread AIDS education program. In fact, what we need in Burma is education of all kinds - political, economic, and medical. AIDS education would be just part of a whole program for education, which is so badly needed in our country.

Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.

I'm all for education. Education ideally happens every moment of the day for people. Education is something that should never stop. The Limbaugh Institute, there are no graduates and no degrees 'cause the learning never stops here. You know, education's a pretty big umbrella.

Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.

America needs education reform on all levels to expand quality schools, build on past successes, and lower college debt.

The difference between the National Football League and college is this: In college, you are a broke college student.

Every day-care center, whether it knows it or not, is a school. The choice is never between custodial care and education. The choice is between unplanned and planned education, between conscious and unconscious education, between bad education and good education.

If you borrowed money and went to a college where the education didn't create any value, that is potentially a really big mistake.

Common education standards are essential for producing the educated work force America needs to remain globally competitive. This voluntary state lead effort will help ensure that all students can receive the college and career ready, world class education they deserve, no matter where they live. I applaud the states efforts that got us here today and the work of NGA, CCSSO and Achieve in supporting this important achievement.

I was telling some of my friends that I really wish college did pay because then you have an opportunity to have fun in college and enjoy college life and have a comfortable living.

I love the book signings, you know, because I get to talk to real people, and a staggering number of people have said something very specific to me. "The Family Leave Law saved my family," or "Made our lives better," or, "The education aid that you provided made it possible for me to go to college." One man at 50 years of age got his college degree.

I never went to college. I went to the school of hard knocks and paid for my education by getting ripped off. It's been a great adventure, and I've outlived my adversaries.