Famous Quotes & Sayings

Colman McCarthy

I'd rather teach peace.

Colman McCarthy

Unless we teach our children peace, somebody else will teach them violence.

E. V. Lucas

The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek.

E. W. Howe

No wonder the teacher knows so much; she has the book.

E. W. Howe

It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

I'm a mathematician by education, but I have this other thing. A gut instinct.

Dean Wareham

The fact I have an education forms my lyrical style, I'm sure. I studied the social sciences, history, stuff like that. I have an interest in politics, which maybe works its way into the songs in small, subtle ways.

We must be good stewards for our children's education and for our seniors' quality of life.

Flea

My whole musical life has been an educational process, and I'm just furthering my education and filling in the blanks. There's stuff that I want to know that I don't know.

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught

Malala Yousafzai

All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.

Elliott Carter

I mean the public likes it more in Europe than they do here because the state supported organizations have felt that playing contemporary music was part of the education of the public.

We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.

At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.

Edith Hamilton

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.

We're trying to push our education mission to meet the avocations of people, or their external interests.

David Wright

We're trying to make everyone uncomfortable with this report. Whether it's students or higher-education leaders or governments, we all have to do more.

Subsidies on petroleum products and fertilizers should be phased out in a defined, time-bound manner. The resources that would get freed up could then be used to fund various social sector programmes in education, healthcare and other priority sectors.

Ben Bernanke

As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.

Ahmed Zewail

Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future.

Carlos Slim

Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.

We should be trying to make education less expensive, not more.

Bob McNair

If you're going to have a satisfactory standard of living, you're going to have to be competitive in this world. And you can't be competitive if you don't have a good education.

My primary and secondary education was in French, which had a lasting influence on my life.

Barbara Lynn

I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.

Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.

This reeks of racism. What's going to happen to our inner-city kids? They are going to get an average, mundane education offered to them at best.

We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy.

We always stress to the kids to work hard in the classroom. We want our players to get a quality education as well as performing on the field.

The reason why Proposition 98 is so important is ... the last thing ever funded was education in California. It's very important that we maintain that guarantee.

The reason we're doing mine rescue education in places like this is because there is still this threat of mines, because the confrontation lines were so close.

Paul Simon

When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all.

Rick Ross

The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts.