Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anna Quindlen

There are obvious places in which government can narrow the chasm between haves and have-nots. One is the public schools, which have been seen as the great leveler, the authentic melting pot. That, today, is nonsense. In his scathing study of the nation's public school system entitled "Savage Inequalities," Jonathan Kozol made manifest the truth: that we have a system that discriminates against the poor in everything from class size to curriculum.

Anna Quindlen

I went to a women's college. ... it was a little like learning to swim while holding on to the side of the pool; I didn't learn the arm movements until after I graduated, but by that time I was one hell of a kicker.

Angelina Grimke

We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.

Alfred Austin

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

Alfie Kohn

Learning is something students do, NOT something done to students.

Angela Merkel

The willingness to learn new skills is very high.

Amy Tan

You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a bottle. You do not have to think. You simply write what is swimming on the top of your brain. And the top is nothing but pond scum, dead leaves, and mosquito spawn.

Alphonse Karr

Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.

Anthony Burgess

The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects we study that the two most important things in civilised life are Art and Science.

Andy Rooney

All economists should be locked up until they admit that they don't know what they're talking about.

Andy Rooney

When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools.

Andy Rooney

the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.

Kids are prone to be on their phone and their iPads, prone to sharing things and making things. Instead of trying to divorce education from that, let's lean into that.

Jobs are going to go where the well-trained people are. The high-quality jobs will locate where they want to, so we have to work on education as job one.

I think it's a good idea. The Bangor School System is the gold standard as far as education goes, at least in this part of the state.

I think it is really important that we listen to what people in the field of education have to say.

I think integration in Norway is, by all standards, going relatively well. People are working, taking education, learning the language.

I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.

He concentrated on things that had a long-lasting effect. Education of children, enhancing the lives of Native Americans, our natural heritage,

Green School was a monument to education in this part of the world,

Thomas Piketty

Yeah, I am in favor of migration. But I am also in favor of education. But at the same time, I am in favor of progressive taxation. I think we need all of this. I think we don't have to choose one.

Thomas Piketty

The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education.

Susan Strasberg

As far as I can see, about the only thing I've missed is a college education.

Muriel Spark

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.

Kathy Ireland

But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.

Damien Chazelle

Going back to my film education, I always have that voice in my head that's always screaming, 'Sell out!' And that's good: you want that, because it keeps you on your toes, and it's important to remember what's actually important.

I think it's lack of education - that's usually the problem with urban communities.

It is a fairly rigorous process. This kind of verifies the type of education they are getting in Shawnee Mission.

Linda Perry

I think the quality of education goes up when you have good professional development, and we need that, and in the long run the kids will gain so much more.

Ken King

It is going to go toward education funds for my grandchildren and it will subsidize my philanthropy.

Land Between the Lakes is now open for the season and our staff have planned some phenomenal programs filled with education and fun.

Martin O'Malley

There is no greater ladder into the middle class than education.

Ernest Hollings

There is no education in the second kick of a mule