Quotes about education
education children opportunity
In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education. Earl Warren
education mass-culture cities
Our society offers little in the way of reeducation for those who have been torn away from their traditional culture and suddenly exposed to all the blandishments of mass culture-even the churches which follow the hillbillies to the city often make use of the same "hard sell" that the advertisers and politicians do. David Riesman
educational media years
The left's inability to understand the most basic economic fact - that people need an incentive to produce - has caused the unnecessary deaths of tens of millions of people - mostly poor - in the last 75 years. But thanks to a politically corrupted media and educational system, their pigheaded pursuit of socialist fantasies goes on. David Horowitz
education people brain
The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons. David Hockney
education degrees certificates
No one has ever asked to see my degree certificate.
education children reality
You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today. Arnold Schwarzenegger
education men self
Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains. Beatrice Webb
education learning school
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality. Beatrix Potter
education wise children
A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential. Audrey Hepburn
education book thinking
Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.
education believe teaching
I believe that education is the civil rights issue of our generation. And if you care about promoting opportunity and reducing inequality, the classroom is the place to start. Great teaching is about so much more than education; it is a daily fight for social justice. Arne Duncan
education determination men
I say that our system of tests and grades, as it now exists, is one source of the low yield of great men from our universities. The marking system is a traumatic experience from which most students emerge with a deep determination never to get into a situation where they can be marked again. They just won't ever again take a chance. Edwin Land
education quality doe
Into what boundless life, does education admit us. Every truth gained through it expands a moment of time into illimitable being--positively enlarges our existence, and endows us with qualities which time cannot weaken or destroy. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
educational lying fall
Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour falls from the sky a meteoric shower of facts; They lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill is daily spun, But there exists no loom to weave it into fabric. Edna St. Vincent Millay
education growing-up children
Oh, children, growing up to be Adventurers into sophistry, Forbear, forbear to be of those That read the rood to learn the rose.
education heart giving
There is an education of the mind Which all require and parents only start. But there is training of a nobler kind And that's the education of the heart. Lessons that are most difficult to give Are Faith and Courage and the way to live. Edgar Guest
education party thinking
I think we'll have a bigger conversation first within the Republican Party, then with the American people about what's the proper role of the federal government, i do hope that Common Core will be one more, one more reason for us to have this bigger debate, this bigger conversation about the proper role of the federal government in local education. Bobby Jindal
education teaching return
An education is the investment with the greatest returns. Benjamin Franklin
educational eye hands
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
education learning knowledge
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
education work failure
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
educational sleep poultry
The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
education reading mind
Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and Usefulness of Virtue of all Kinds, Publick Spirit, Fortitude.
education wise country
The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both of private Families and of Common-wealths. Almost all Governments have therefore made it a principal Object of their Attention, to establish and endow with proper Revenues, such Seminaries of Learning, as might supply the succeeding Age with Men qualified to serve the Publick with Honour to themselves, and to their Country.
educational keys sloth
Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.
education teacher atheist
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
education wisdom freedom
A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin
education country gold
A fine genius in his own country is like gold in the mine.
education horse ignorance
He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
education answers mathematics
The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated.
education mother country
If the new Universal History were also read, it would give a connected idea of human affairs, so far as it goes, which should be followed by the best modern histories, particularly of our mother country; then of these colonies; which should be accompanied with observations on their rise, increase, use to Great Britain, encouragements and discouragements, the means to make them flourish, and secure their liberties.
education art men
History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected by joining in societies and establishing government; their industry encouraged and rewarded, arts invented, and life made more comfortable; the advantages of liberty, mischiefs of licentiousness, benefits arising from good laws and a due execution of justice. Thus may the first principles of sound politics be fixed in the minds of youth.
education thinking voice
I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations of adult persons; bad habits and vices of the mind being, like diseases of the body, more easily prevented than cured. I think moreover, that talents for the education of youth are the gift of God; and that he on whom they are bestowed, whenever a way is opened for use of them, is as strongly called as if he heard a voice from heaven.