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• I’ve always wanted to get an education, and tonight’s as good a time as any.

  Burt Lancaster

  Topics in Education

• Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them. There’s many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Topics in Education, Humor

  Tags in Writers And Writing, Writing
• 

  You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

  Oscar Wilde

  Topics in Education, Life

  Tags in Fashionably

• If we study what is merely average, we will remain merely average.

  Shawn Achor

  Topics in Education, Inspirational

  Tags in Study

• I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable – me, it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like, ‘Oh finally, I’m proud of you!’

  David Guetta

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Like, Businessman

• Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Prepare

• True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Topics in Education

  Tags in People

• I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated.

  David Frum

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Republicans

• The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.

  David Eugene Price

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Teacher

• My education and background thoroughly inform my writing.

  David Brin

  Topics in Education

• I’m really not into the educational aspect of performing. It’s not in me.

  Dave Lombardo

  Topics in Education

• I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it’s something you have to do around the clock, and that doesn’t compute with our existing educational system.

  Peter Thiel

  Topics in Education, Effort

  Tags in Think

• We need the best education system in the United States. The best system, not the most expensive.

  Bruce Brown

  Topics in Education

  Tags in United States
• 

  What sculpture is to a block of marble education is to the soul.

  Joseph Addison

  Topics in Education, Soul

• You were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid — things you liked — on the grounds that you would never get a job doing that: ‘Don’t do music, you’re not going to be a musician. Don’t do art, you won’t be an artist.’ Benign advice — now, profoundly mistaken.

  Ken Robinson

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Music, Musician

• We are educating people out of their creative capacities.

  Ken Robinson

  Topics in Education

  Tags in People

• There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?.

  Ken Robinson

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Question

• It’s education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can’t grasp.

  Ken Robinson

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Importance

• Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.

  Ken Robinson

  Topics in Education

• Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status

  Ken Robinson

  Topics in Education, Inspirational

  Tags in Creativity