Quotes about education
education children teaching
Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty. Tupac Shakur
education children book
I remember when I was young, in the north, they went to the grammar school little children: they came from thence great lubbers: always learning, and little profiting: learning without book everything, understanding within the book little or nothing. Roger Ascham
education catholic facts
You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education. Robert Vaughn
education military adventure
Higher education isn't just a personal investment. It's a public good that pays off in a more competitive workforce and better-informed and engaged citizens. Every year, we spend nearly $100 billion on corporate welfare, and more than $500 billion on defense spending. Surely ensuring the next generation can compete in the global economy is at least as important as subsidies for big business and military adventures around the globe. In fact, I think we can and must go further - not just making public higher education tuition-free, but reinventing education in America as we know it. Robert Reich
education people effort
Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity. Robert Trout
education football years
Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated. Robert M. Hutchins
education school democratic-ideals
It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.
education america six
It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's; remedial readin', remedial 'ritin' and remedial 'rithmetic.
education learning ideas
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
education teacher facts
Education can be dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is almost impossible.
education would-be looks
When we listen to the radio, look at television and read the newspapers we wonder whether universal education has been the great boon that its supporters have always claimed it would be.
education teacher powerful
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
education thinking mind
It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.
education racism racist
Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education. Sargent Shriver
education needs caste-system
If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.
education college wind
As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.
education peace truth
Among the innumerable mortifications which waylay human arrogance on every side may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common objects and effects, a defect of which we become more sensible by every attempt to supply it. Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things when they are shown their form or told their use; but the speculatist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity, and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less. Samuel Johnson
education strong quilts
When first the college rolls receive his name, The young enthusiast quilts his ease for fame; Through all his veins the fever of renown Burns from the strong contagion of the gown
education differences people
It is wonderful what a difference learning makes upon people even in the common intercourse of life, which does not appear to be much connected with it.
education book boys
I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning, for that is sure good. I would let him at first read any English book which happens to engage his attention; because you have done a great deal when you have brought him to have entertainment from a book. He'll get better books afterwards.
education children mean
It is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first. You may stand disputing which is best to put in first, but in the mean time your breech is bare. Sir, while you are considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learned them both.
education memories school
There is something out of gear about graded schools and all that. Memory is developed at the expense of what in general we are pleased to call thought and character. Sarah Orne Jewett
education teacher school
It is fitting that the Government of the United States should assume the obligation of the establishment and maintenance of a first-class university for the education of colored menand I wish to put in this caveatthat the colored race today, all of them, would be better off if they all had university education.... Of course, the basis of education of the colored people is in the primary schools and in industrial schools.... In those schools must be introduced teachers from such university institutions as this. William Howard Taft
education chance interest
It interests me tremendously to make copies... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things. Vincent Van Gogh
education paint glad
In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.
education years giving
Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state. Vladimir Lenin
education college world
In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated. Walter Annenberg
education laughter inspiration
Arrange whatever pieces come your way. Virginia Woolf
education real soul
All real education is the architecture of the soul. William Bennett
education school years
Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools
education moving school
I turn my eyes to the schools & universities of Europe And there behold the loom of Locke whose woof rages dire, Washed by the water-wheels of Newton. Black the cloth In heavy wreaths folds over every nation; cruel works Of many wheels I view, wheel without wheel, with cogs tyrannic Moving by compulsion each other: not as those in Eden, which Wheel within wheel in freedom revolve, in harmony & peace. William Blake
education people grind
You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people. Wentworth Miller
education school life-learning
You can get all A's and still flunk life. Walker Percy