Quotes about education
education far gold good school standard system
I think it's a good idea. The Bangor School System is the gold standard as far as education goes, at least in this part of the state.
education failure respect
But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated. Kathy Ireland
education good head keeps remember
Going back to my film education, I always have that voice in my head that's always screaming, 'Sell out!' And that's good: you want that, because it keeps you on your toes, and it's important to remember what's actually important. Damien Chazelle
education reason wonderful
He's a wonderful person if for no other reason than the education piece. Fred Wilson
education greater middle
There is no greater ladder into the middle class than education. Martin O'Malley
education kick mule second
There is no education in the second kick of a mule Ernest Hollings
education embrace focusing harm wrong year
I think this year we are really focusing on education, ... We need to embrace those who set out to harm our community, because really something is wrong with them.
education learning parent
Academics were important to my parents, as immigrants. Education is where it all begins. Renee Zellweger
education thinking giving
Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask. Richard Bach
education children school
How many more years will our educators continue to lecture us on the evils of whipping children until they bring home high grades? Year after year we listen to these fellows tell us that it is not the grade that counts but the development of the child's personality. After the lecture they go back to all the best schools and reject our children because they have C averages. Russell Baker
education learned-person information
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. Russell Baker
education ignorance thinking
I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. Ruben Blades
education learning discipline
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others. Tryon Edwards
education teacher teaching
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. Tryon Edwards
educational communication law
The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication. Rick Boucher
education mean second-best
Being educated means to prefer the best not only to the worst but to the second best. William Lyon Phelps
education wall order
How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls. William Lyon Phelps
education college conservative
The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. Woodrow Wilson
educational acceptance hands
I am not willing to be drawn further into the toils. I cannot accede to the acceptance of gifts upon terms which take the educational policy of the university out of the hands of the Trustees and Faculty and permit it to be determined by those who give money. Woodrow Wilson
education mistake giving
We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study. Woodrow Wilson
educational lying men
The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender. Woodrow Wilson
education book beer
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. Woody Allen
education school boys
I am not sure that it is a bad thing to go to a school, as I did, where the boys threw things at me, and asked if there was nothing else I could do [but draw]. William Merritt Chase
education struggle kids
In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever. William J. Clinton
educational views ideas
To begin with our knowledge grows in spots. ..What you first gain, ... is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions, or distinctions, or points of view. But while these special ideas are being added, the rest of your knowledge stands still, and only gradually will you line up your previous opinions with the novelties I am trying to instill, and to modify to some slight degree their mass. ..Your mind in such processes is strained, and sometimes painfully so, between its older beliefs and the novelties which experience brings along. William James
education teacher important
In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering. William James
educational philosophy feelings
There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of feeling, of desire, of deliberation, etc., that constantly pass and repass, and that constitute our inner life. William James
education philosophical carpe-diem
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one. William James
education enemy allies
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. William James
education men woe
Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn. Will Durant
education knowledge eye
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul. Will Durant
education civilization transmission
Education is the transmission of civilization. Will Durant
education boston names
I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University. William F. Buckley, Jr.