Quotes about education
education believe reading
I am not fully informed of the practices at Harvard, but there is one from which we shall certainly vary, although it has been copied, I believe, by nearly every college and academy in the United States. That is, the holding the students all to one prescribed course of reading, and disallowing exclusive application to those branches only which are to qualify them for the particular vocations to which they are destined. We shall, on the contrary, allow them uncontrolled choice in the lectures they shall choose to attend, and require elementary qualification only, and sufficient age. Thomas Jefferson
education foundation republic
The only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion.
education peace exercise
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
education school clouds
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
education freedom war
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
education people liberty
Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree, I have looked on our present state of liberty as a short-lived possession unless the mass of the people could be informed to a certain degree.
education men people
The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves, nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe.
education country lying
To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to give them further education, to be carried at the public expense through the college and university. The object is to bring into action that mass of talents which lies buried in poverty in every country, for want of the means of development, and thus give activity to a mass of mind, which, in proportion to our population, shall be double or treble of what it is in most countries.
education equal-treatment people
There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
education teacher people
Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.
education ignorance racism
Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.
education school winning
Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy. Robert Henri
education self self-education
All education must be self-education.
education self expression
Self-education only produces expressions of self.
education learning ignorant
The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated.
education agency energy
Eliminate agencies that perform redundant functions... Get rid of the Department of Commerce, the Department of Education, the Department of Energy. Rick Perry
education names affair
Yeah, that's a cool name, but it's a monstrous intrusion into our affairs.
education college texas
We have to make sure that college is accessible and affordable. Two years ago, I stood here and called upon our institutions of higher learning to develop plans for degrees that cost no more than $10,000. There were plenty of detractors at that time who insisted it couldn't be done. However, that call inspired educators at colleges and universities across our state to step up to the plate. Today, I'm proud to tell you that thirteen Texas universities have announced plans for a $10,000 degree.
education teacher children
That the Texas Legislature, that the Texas school boards, the Texas teachers, we collectively know best how to educate our children, rather than some bureaucrat in Washington.
education strong school
Texas is a national leader in education reform and student achievement. Through our college- and career-ready standards and assessments, strong school accountability, and a focus on educator development, we have created an education system that prepares our students for success after graduation.
education school giving
It's... time to introduce scholarship programs that give students a choice, especially those who are locked into low-performing schools.
education running believe
It's a Tenth Amendment issue. If you want Washington, if you want to implement their standards, that's your call... We certainly had higher standards than Common Core, so it was a very easy decision for Texans, myself and the legislature included, to basically say we still believe that Texans know how to best run Texas.
education school sacrifice
We should also give students more flexibility in the courses they take in high school to prepare them for whatever their goals may be, without sacrificing our rigorous academic standards.
education children school
Not every child learns for the same purpose, not every child thrives in the same settings and schools. Limiting a child to just one opportunity does nothing more than limit that child's future. The way forward must involve more public charter schools, which offer parents a tuition-free alternative to their neighborhood school.
education grandchildren dice
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. Tallulah Bankhead
education eagles wings
You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world. Tom Petty
education children creating
Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives. Simone Weil
education teacher teaching
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
education real attention
The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.
education order pearls
Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it.
educational positive-experiences share
How much do you as a consumer value a positive experience with a brand or its customer service department? How willing are you to share that with your friends? How inclined are you to let that person know that you're interaction with them was positive? Simon Mainwaring
education sensibility
We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence. Remy de Gourmont
education office kind
Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate. Rem Koolhaas