Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rigoberta Menchu

...instead of giving a rifle to somebody, build a school; instead of giving a rifle, build a community with adequate services. Instead of giving a rifle, develop an educational system that is not about conflict and violence, but one that promotes respect for values, for life, and respect for one's elders. This requires a huge investment. Yet if we can invest in a different vision of peaceful coexistence, I think we can change the world, because every problem has a nonviolent answer.

Richard Moss

The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention

Richard Mitchell

In a government institution, there is only one area in which problems are taken seriously, and that is the political. Many of the strange things done in American educationism suddenly become perfectly understandable when we see them not as educational methods but as political maneuvers. We must understand illiteracy, therefore, the root of ignorance and thoughtlessness, as not some inadvertent failure to accomplish what was intended but simply a political arrangement of great value to somebody.

Richard Mitchell

There is only one remedy for ignorance and thoughtlessness, and that is literacy. Millions and millions of children would today stand in no need of sex education or consumer education or anti-racism education or any of those fake educations, if they had had in the first place 'an' education.

Richard Mitchell

People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing is preventing thought.

Richard Mitchell

Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.

Like a stool which needs three legs to be stable, mathematics education needs three components: good problems, with many of them being multi-step ones, a lot of technical skill, and then a broader view which contains the abstract nature of mathematics and proofs. One does not get all of these at once, but a good mathematics program has them as goals and makes incremental steps toward them at all levels.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

We have taken a strategic decision to gather education activities under a single roof.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

If during their education our youths become alienated from their language, history, ancestors, culture and civilization, it means there is a very serious educational problem there.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap.

The more involvement you have with students and raise expectations the better the education will be. When the expectations of the family are there with the expectations and accountability of the employees, then we will be where we need to be.

The money you inherit will come to you tax-free. Let that money be the money that funds education costs,

The money goes to education. It has nothing to do with gambling - the outcome of a game. It's a simple scratch-and-win.

collaborative education is a better way to learn.

The move toward longer kindergarten, I think, encourages deterioration of parents involved in the education of the youngest of our children, I am not in favor of expanding (the concept) to all of Utah students.

The (old type) jobs are hard to get. What do you do if they fail to get a proper education?

The most unsuccessful four years in the education of a cost-estimator is fifth grade arithmetic.

Paul Gray

The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.

Jack Germond

Spend hundreds of millions; talk endlessly about issues; present 12-point plans for education, the economy, and the environment. But in the end, the election of our next president can turn on a gaffe.

Special education kids are always going to struggle with that accountability piece because special education kids are in the program because they have learning disabilities,

Jim McCormick

Technology has become the plumbing of education, ... You expect it to work.

Matt Williams

Teachers are really good with the students, and I feel like I'm getting a good education here.

said Kennedy, who will make education programs her focus on the board. ''I just fell in love with the museum.

Sadly there is a small group of parents who do not respect education.

President Miller had an enormous impact on my education and the education of all SDSU students over the years, were are all really going to miss her.

At a time when they can't properly fund education . . . now is not the time you start trying to figure out how to take money away from those institutions the state has the largest responsibility towards.

Jim Rogers

As we go forward, the student or the private sector will have to pay more and more of the higher education burden.

W. S. Gilbert

As you get a little older, you see the world a little differently and you realize that education is really the thing that can solve a lot of our problems.

Accommodations in Higher Education Under the Americans with Disabilities Act: A No-Nonsense Guide for Clinicians, Educators, Administrators, and Lawyers.

Accountability is such a huge piece of education, so that's really important for us to look at.

Mariska Hargitay

It's been quite an education doing this show and living in New York at the same time, and being exposed to so many different kinds of people,

Chris Ferguson

It's enough already. For me, personally, education is the most important issue.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.