Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maajid Nawaz

I worked my way through the education system and was treated as though I had value.

I grew up with a lot of the same kind of education (like Kindermusik),

If we don't pass a referendum, the school here will be a very different place next year.

If we get into a special session, education is a legitimate issue.

She will hold three meetings at the Legion hall and get some education from the public about what they think they might want or need in the form of senior housing. It is an opportunity for the public to learn what is happening and to speak their piece.

Khalil Gibran

I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers

I felt like it was something good to be a part of. Sportsmanship is our No. 1 priority, much more so than winning. It promotes education, and education is the key.

Groucho Marx

I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.

Jean Paul

Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual.

Jerry Seinfeld

I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?

Jeffrey Gitomer

Customers will want to talk to you if they believe you can solve their problems.

Jeffrey Tambor

My education was doing good plays and also stinkers. When you do a stinker, you learn how to act. I like having to audition. It's nice to do rehearsals. But it's with an audience that you get to love it!

James A. Garfield

The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual efforts of citizens, and from those burdens of taxation which they voluntarily impose upon themselves.

James A. Garfield

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

James A. Baldwin

The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.

James A. Baldwin

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

James A. Baldwin

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

James A. Baldwin

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

James A. Baldwin

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

Jack Steinberger

In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of friendly, loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I'm saying it's already been done because I lived it.

Gary Vaynerchuk

It's very logical: There is proven ROI in doing whatever you can to turn your customers into advocates for your brand or business. The way to create advocates is to offer superior customer service.

Hippocrates

First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place...

Hillary Clinton

Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.

Hillary Clinton

There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.

Herbert Croly

The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the realization of a collective purpose.

Herbert Hoover

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the smoke stacks. Yet perhaps it is there at Princeton, only more elusive than under the skies of the Prussian Rhineland or Oxfordshire; or perhaps some men come upon it suddenly and possess it, while others wander forever outside. Even these seek in vain through middle age for any corner of the republic that preserves so much of what is fair, gracious, charming and honorable in American life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Evelyn Waugh

I have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason that he is anxious to conceal.

Evan Esar

A smart mother suggests that her child bring an apple to his teacher; a smarter mother suggests that he bring a couple of aspirins.

Evan Esar

Good teachers cost a lot; but, poor teachers cost a lot more.