Quotes about Education
A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.
— Thomas Paine
If we get the federal government out of the classroom, maybe we'll get God back in.
— Ronald Reagan
Government should uphold-and not undermine-those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and, above all, family.
— Ronald Reagan
Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.
— Herbert Hoover
Make sure people get educated, help out with health emergencies. Those things, the government should do. That's 96 per cent of the economy, those two sectors.
— Bill Gates
Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.
— Aristotle
Why should the government subsidize intellectual curiosity?
— Ronald Reagan
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The longer our graduation lines are today, the shorter our unemployment lines will be tomorrow.
— George H. W. Bush
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
— Helen Keller
Study hard; and you might grow up to be President. But let's face it: Even then, you'll never make as much money as your dog.
— George H. W. Bush