Quotes about education
education science people
Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.
education mistake thinking
We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death. Chris Hedges
educational feminist political
Truly, the challenges we face are not Democratic challenges or Republican challenges. In fact, they are not political challenges at all; they are fiscal challenges, and educational challenges, and the challenges of figuring out how to take care of each other. Christine Gregoire
educational common-sense commodity
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
education laughter inspiration
Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness. George W. Bush
education children block
Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.
education children excellence
You see, we'll never be able to compete in the 21st century unless we have an education system that doesn't quit on children, an education system that raises standards, an education that makes sure there's excellence in every classroom.
educational drinking coffee
Customers don't always know what they want. The decline in coffee-drinking was due to the fact that most of the coffee people bought was stale and they weren't enjoying it. Once they tasted ours and experienced what we call "the third place" ... a gathering place between home and work where they were treated with respect.. they found we were filling a need they didn't know they had. Howard Schultz
educational loyal-customers expectations
Our mission statement about treating people with respect and dignity is not just words but a creed we live by every day. You can't expect your employees to exceed the expectations of your customers if you don't exceed the employees' expectations of management.
education children stupid
A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings. Honore de Balzac
education writing mathematics
I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry. Ice T
education age genius
Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins. Isaac Disraeli
education art learning
True literacy is becoming an arcane art and the nation [United States] is steadily dumbing down. Isaac Asimov
education world arise
It is through education that all the good in the world arises. Immanuel Kant
education teacher intelligent
I was sitting in the classroom trying to look intelligent in case the teacher looked at me. Elton John
education teacher children
Oh teacher, I need you like a little child, you got something in you to drive a school boy wild.
education self giving
The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
educational people intellectual
It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual. Ian Mcewan
educational reading writing
Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people. Hugh Mackay
education school character
Finally, in regard to those who possess the largest shares in the stock of worldly goods, could there, in your opinion, be any police so vigilant and effetive, for the protections of all the rights of person, property and character, as such a sound and comprehensive education and training, as our system of Common Schools could be made to impart; and would not the payment of a sufficient tax to make such education and training universal, be the cheapest means of self-protection and insurance? Horace Mann
education mother children
When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?
education science humans
Education is an organic necessity of a human being.
education people giving
The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.
education lines republican
Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.
education men rich
Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.
education children practice
Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be.
education school spurs
When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.
education apples educated
As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated.
education men balance
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
education quality infinite
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
education safety political
Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
education people want
Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .
education inspire height
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.