Quotes about education
education father men
In 1838, Mirabeau B. Lamar, the Second President of the Republic of Texas and the Father of Texas education, declared: 'The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires.' Lyndon B. Johnson
education military mean
Education is 'the guardian genius of our democracy.' Nothing really means more to our future, not our military defenses, not our missiles or our bombers, not our production economy, not even our democratic system of government. For all of these are worthless if we lack the brain power to support and sustain them.
education jobs journey
The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
education liberty records
History may well record that we served liberty and saved freedom when we undertook a crash program in the field of education . . .. I hope this bill is only the forerunner of better things to come.
education government years
First, this law - the National Defense Education Act - ended years and years of debate about one controversial question: 'Shall the Federal Government, with all its massive resources, get directly involved in aiding American education?' The answer this law gave was a loud 'Yes!' - and thus we paved the way for a new era of support for education in America. This law, in fact, helped make possible more than 50 new education laws passed in my administration.
education law promise
Second, this law has become a special symbol of our Nation's most important purpose: to fulfill the individual - his freedom, his happiness, his promise.
education country peace
Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake - but for the future of our nation's sake. Nothing matters more to the future of our country: not our military preparedness - for armed might is worthless if we lack the brainpower to build world peace; not our productive economy - for we cannot sustain growth without trained manpower; not our democratic system of government - for freedom is fragile if citizens are ignorant.
education white race
'Human history, ' H.G. Wells once wrote, 'becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.' You and I cannot be indifferent to the outcome of that race. We care deeply about the winner. Because we do care so deeply about the winner, that is why we are all in the East Room of the White House today.
education money men
[E]very man, everywhere, should be free to develop his talents to their full potential - unhampered by arbitrary barriers of race or birth or income.
education money luxury
It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity.
education equality thinking
In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the education of both races. Personally, I think it would have been sounder judgment to allow that progress to continue through the process of natural evolution. However, there is no point crying about spilt milk.
education money school
Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot educate today's youth, what will we do in 1970 when elementary enrollment will be 5 million greater than 1960? And high school enrollment will rise by 5 million. College enrollment will increase by more than 3 million.
education dream money
We are now embarked on another venture to put the American dream to work in meeting the new demands of a new day. Once again we must start where men would improve their society have always known they must begin - with an educational system restudied, reinforced, and revitalized.
education school years
Today, 8 million adult Americans, more than the entire population of Michigan, have not finished 5 years of school. Nearly 20 million have not finished 8 years of school. Nearly 54 million - more than one-quarter of all America - have not even finished high school.
education patriotic opportunity
Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
education opportunity doors
We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.
education money opportunity
Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
education problem cures
Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
education learning firsts
First you have to learn to do something, then you can go out and do it. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
educational details
God is in the details.
education important music-business
Education is extremely important, especially in my business, the music business. Ludacris
education branches common
In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal. Loretta Young
education book math
I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. M. C. Escher
education art jigsaw-puzzles
Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that contact may be made across the boderline between the two respective domains.
educational winning way
The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right. Lord Hailsham
education country latin
I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is, by knowing a great many words of two dead languages, which nobody living knows perfectly, and which are of no use in the common intercourse of life. Useful knowledge, in my opinion, consists of modern languages, history, and geography; some Latin may be thrown into the bargain, in compliance with custom, and for closet amusement. Lord Chesterfield
education giving age
Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.
education teaching thinking
One should always think of what one is about; when one is learning, one should not think of play; and when one is at play, one should not think of learning.
education want requirements
Perhaps Harvard's greatest contribution to our nation is its requirement that its on-leave professors who want to keep their crimson seats must return from Washington after 24 months. Malcolm Forbes
educational lying thinking
If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money. Malcolm Gladwell
education space campus
On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking space. Malcolm Bradbury
educational technology needs
I will continue my activities related to education in one way or another. I certainly would have at the top my agenda, with respect to education, the need to do much better with modern educational technology. Major Owens
educational technology quality
We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.