Quotes about education
educational school thinking
...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. Rigoberta Menchu
educational listening-to-others giving
The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention Richard Moss
educational taken ignorance
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
education sex children
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.
educational writing technology
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.
educational school people
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.
education views skills
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.
education taken decision
We have taken a strategic decision to gather education activities under a single roof. Recep Tayyip Erdogan
education mean civilization
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.
education religious racism
When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap.
education teacher morning
The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school. T. D. Jakes
education emotional intelligence
It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time. T. S. Eliot
educational home where-home-is
Home is where one starts from.
education school development
we already have so much pressure towards sameness through radio, film and comic outside the school, that we can't afford to do a thing inside that is not toward individual development ... Sylvia Ashton-Warner
education ideas conscious
Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea.
education college mind
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure. Sydney J. Harris
educational creative taught
The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.
educational dark mirrors
Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
education silly book
I'm not sure at all that literature should be studied on the university level. ... Why should people study books? Isn't it rather silly to study Pride and Prejudice. Either you get it or you don't. Susan Sontag
education book heart
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness.
education lying pushing
We learn by pushing ourselves and finding what really lies at the outer reaches of our abilities. Joshua Waitzkin
educational support community
A literate world is a possible and desirable one. There are enough resources. What is now needed is the collective will of the international community to ensure that the necessary support is forthcoming.
educational challenges education-for-all
Achieving the right to basic education for all is thus one of the biggest moral challenges of our times.
educational poverty literacy
it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy.
educational community literacy
International Literacy Day is an occasion to celebrate the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies everywhere
educational democracy tools
It is intolerable that around 1 in 5 of the world's adults are illiterate. How can we build equitable information societies or thriving democracies if so many remain without the basic tools of literacy?
educational education-for-all development
On this International Literacy Day, let us recall that literacy for all is an integral part of education for all, and that both are critical for achieving truly sustainable development for all. Kofi Annan
educational technology people
Young people - with their dynamism, their energy and their inherent understanding of our interconnected world - have much to teach us. Increased educational attainment, advances in technology and the spread of information have made this generation the best educated, most connected and most informed in history
education democracies-have democracy
Education is a human right with immense power to transform
educational heart development
literacy is at the heart of sustainable development
educational doors essentials
Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, is essential to development and health, and opens the way for democratic participation and active citizenship.
education teaching democracies-have
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
education knowledge information-is-power
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.