Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Cherie Blair

Yes, people need food and education. But one of the cornerstones of any society is a well-functioning legal system.

Clayton Christensen

For 300 years, higher education was not disruptable because there was no technological core.

Doris Lessing

I was writing all my childhood. And I wrote two novels when I was 17, which were terrible. And I'm not sorry I threw them out. So, I wrote. I had to write. You know, the thing was, I had no education.

Ian Harding

My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.

Cornel West

Education is soul crafting.

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.

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.

David Letterman

Donald Trump had a university. Well, the state attorney general decided that the Donald Trump University was an unlicensed sham. And I thought, you know you're at a bad university when your commencement speaker is Whitey Bulger.

David Elkind

So while it is true that children are exposed to more information and a greater variety of experiences than were children of the past, it does not follow that they automatically become more sophisticated. We always know much more than we understand, and with the torrent of information to which young people are exposed, the gap between knowing and understanding, between experience and learning, has become even greater than it was in the past.

David Elkind

If learning to read was as easy as learning to talk, as some writers claim, many more children would learn to read on their own. The fact that they do not, despite their being surrounded by print, suggests that learning to read is not a spontaneous or simple skill.

David Barton

Recent decades clearly demonstrate that the more secular our Public Schools become the less successful they become academically.

David O. McKay

True education is awakening a love for truth...opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life.

David Ogilvy

Many of the greatest creations of man have been inspired by the desire to make money...If Oxford undergraduates were paid for their work, I would have performed miracles of scholarship and become Regius Professor of Modern History.

David McCord

Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been; hear voices not once heard before, reach world on world through door on door; find unexpected keys to things locked up beyond imaginings. What might you be, perhaps become, because one book is somewhere? Some wise delver into wisdom, wit, and wherewithal has written it. True books will venture, dare you out, whisper secrets, maybe shout across the gloom to you in need, who hanker for a book to read.

David Mamet

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under the tutelage of a Coca-Cola sign.

Danny Bonaduce

I take great solace that Einstein failed math. I failed math. I also failed English and home economics. Einstein was an underachiever.

Condoleezza Rice

[I]t is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling - and indeed healthy - to ask why you have been given so much.

Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.

Ronaldinho

My family is everything. I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.

Paul Simon

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