Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Babbage

The tastes and pursuits of manhood will bear on them the traces of the earlier impressions of our education. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.

Charles Babbage

A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.

Alanis Morissette

Your choice of armor was your intellect.

Blake Mycoskie

Giving builds loyal customers and turns those customers into supporters...You can find passion and profit and meaning all at once, right now.

Blake Mycoskie

When you're buying a pair of TOMS, if you don't feel like you're part of a community, then I've failed.

Blake Mycoskie

Giving feels good, but it's also good for the bottom line. Charity is a viable growth strategy for a lot of companies. Our customers get excited to be a part of what we're doing. If you ask anyone wearing Toms how they first heard about us, most won't mention an advertisement; they'll say a friend told them our story.

Blaise Pascal

Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.

Billie Jean King

The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.

Brigham Young

See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning..

Brigham Young

If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Anzia Yezierska

At last I came to college. I rushed for it with the outstretched arms of youth's aching hunger to give and take of life's deepest, and highest, and I came against the solid wall of the well-fed, well-dressed world - the frigid whitewashed wall of cleanliness. ... How I pinched, and scraped, and starved myself, to save enough to come to college! Every cent of the tuition fee I paid was drops of sweat and blood from underpaid laundry work. And what did I get for it? A crushed spirit, a broken heart, a stinging sense of poverty that I never felt before.

Edmund Barton

If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

Edmund Burke

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

Elie Wiesel

Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.

Elie Wiesel

I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth.

Elie Wiesel

There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps.

Edward R. Murrow

I was greatly influenced by one of my teachers. She had a zeal not so much for perfection as for steady betterment-she demanded not excellence so much as integrity.

Edward R. Murrow

This instrument [radio] can teach. It can illuminate, yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it's nothing but wires and lights in a box.

Education is not Democrat versus Republican. It's about doing the right things for the right reason for our kids.

Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated.

Mary Wortley Montagu

We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.

Susan B. Anthony

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

Brian Eno

So I believe in singing to such an extent that if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing become a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.

Boris Nemtsov

This is my country. The Russian people are in bit of trouble. Russian court doesn't work. Russian education decline every year. I believe that Russia has a chance to be free. Has a chance. It's difficult, but we must do it.

Booker T. Washington

Too often the educational value of doing well what is done, however little, is overlooked. One thing well done prepares the mind to do the next thing better. Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.

Booker T. Washington

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Bobby Scott

The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled.

Bobby Scott

So, the struggle for equal educational opportunity continues.

Bobby Scott

Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources.

Bobby Scott

Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to.

Bobby Scott

Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.