Famous Quotes & Sayings

If I were IBM, I'd understand it. I'm not IBM. I represent 14 educational institutions.

Casey Affleck

I had a public school education - 3,000 kids when I was there. And there were a lot of teachers who would just sit there. You'd come in and sign your name and the teacher would just sit there at the head of the class and you would literally just have to stay in your seat for 40 minutes and that was the only thing you'd have to do in class.

Sitaram Yechury

In education, there is a golden triangle of quantity, quality and equity. You just can't ignore one while strengthening the others.

I'm sympathetic to the (New Orleans) schools. At the same time, it's my education and I should have the right to go where I want.

David Allen

I'm happy that it's over with and I know where I'm going. I'm real excited about going out there and just playing football. The good thing about it is that I can get a great education and I get to play the sport I love.

I lived in Wales back in 1982 and 1983. I studied journalism at South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education just off Newport Road in Cardiff.

I like what the Legislature did this year. They made a positive statement about education in the state.

In the education White Paper, the government is proposing that local authorities consider, as an immediate option, sacking heads of schools that receive a poor inspection report.

Interest is one of the strongest motivating factors in a child's education.

Instead of unfairly demonizing teachers, we should be working with them to find solutions to the problems in our schools and make sure every child gets an outstanding public education.

I just think they're flat out wrong. We literally have thousands of people working every day to improve not only the education of African-American kids, but other kids as well.

I love teaching. Later down the road, I'll do a lot more. There's nothing more important than education.

By measuring things simply on a standardized test, you're never going to get a full picture of education in Florida. There's more individual attention.

Because music is not a tested area, often (districts) will take time from music education to focus on math and reading. It is happening in a lot of places.

Jeremy Corbyn

Because I've never had any higher education of any sort, I've never held in awe those who have had it or have a sense of superiority over those who don't.

Higher education is still quite an open market in this area. The roots of course-management systems in higher education are still very shallow.

Higher education is not growing fast enough to meet the needs of Nevada.

Higher education has seen its percentage of general fund decline.

Higher education has lost its way, but we've all lost our way.

Higher education for me was a transforming experience. I'm hoping to transform the lives of students.

His leadership will be very key in leading the faculty and staff and implementing the education that will meet the students' needs.

They're taking students, who really don't have a place to go, to get their education and hopefully return to their schools in January.

Brian Nelson

They've done good. We had an education phase with our public. At first they didn't like it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

(Space programs are) a force operating on educational pipelines that stimulate the formation of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians... They're the ones that make tomorrow come. The foundations of economies... issue forth from investments we make in science and technology.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Too many people view on [space exploration] as a luxury rather than as a fundamental driver to stimulate interest in science to everyone in the educational pipeline. It's vital to our prosperity and security.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

There's no greater sign of the failure of the American educational system than the extent to which Americans are distracted by the possibility that Earth might end on December 21, 2012. It's a profound absence of awareness of the laws of physics and how nature works. So they're missing some science classes in their training in high school or in college that would empower them to understand and to judge when someone else is basically just full of it. Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you.

John Naisbitt

The economic borderlines of our world will not be drawn between countries, but around Economic Domains. Along the twin paths of globalization and decentralization, the economic pieces of the future are being assembled in a new way. Not what is produced by a country or in a country will be of importance, but the production within global Economic Domains, measured as Gross Domain Products. The global market demands a global sharing of talent. The consequence is Mass Customization of Talent and education as the number one economic priority for all countries

John W. Gardner

Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.

John W. Gardner

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.

John W. Gardner

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

John W. Gardner

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

John W. Gardner

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

John Tesh

If you want to get an education in how to get a story and how to survive, then get a street reporter job in New York City.