Quotes about education
education children father
It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father. Vaughn Monroe
education hope new-york
It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour. Vartan Gregorian
education thinking enlightenment
Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think. Van Morrison
education teacher father
No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.
education mother simple
My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment. Twyla Tharp
education littles formal
The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
educational school opportunity
As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families. William Glasser
educational school thinking
We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
education teach
We learn... 10% of what we read 20% of what we hear 30% of what we see 50% of what we both hear and see 70% of what is discussed 80% of what we experience personally 95% of what we teach to someone else
education haste forget
Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education. William Godwin
education third-grade grades
The best I could say about third grade was that it was a more or less continuous state of dread. Sonia Sotomayor
educational book shopping
Books are educational; so you can buy as many as you want." Sophie Kinsella, shopping at the Limelight Marketplace Sophie Kinsella
educational
To the makying of bookes of gardenyng there is noe ende. Thomas Hill
education squares luxury
...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as the quadratic equation and the use of logarithms are often of value in ordinary cases: but all beyond these is but a luxury; a delicious luxury indeed; but not be in indulged in by one who is to have a profession to follow for his subsistence. Thomas Jefferson
education government united-states
It is (our) duty . . . to pay especial attention to the principles of government which shall be inculcated therein (at the University), and to provide that none shall be inculcated which are incompatible with those on which the Constitutions of this State, and of the United States were genuinely based, in the common opinion; and for this purpose it may be necessary to point out specially where these principles are to be found legitimately developed.
education reading writing
Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be rendered . . . worthy to receive, and able to guard the sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of their fellow citizens.
education individual-happiness judging
The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity and individual happiness are so much to depend.
education men order
To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the point at which are to commence the higher branches of education . . . . To develop the reasoning faculties of our youth, enlarge their minds, cultivate their morals, and instill into them the precepts of virtue and order.
education government two
There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and the sub-division of counties into wards. I consider the continuance of republican government as absolutely hanging on these two hooks.
education people feelings
People generally have more feeling for canals and roads than education. However, I hope we can advance them with equal pace.
education states sensible
All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power.
education country hands
Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands of private enterprise, which manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal, but a public institution can alone supply those sciences which, though rarely called for, are yet necessary to complete the circle, all the parts of which contribute to the improvement of the country, and some of them to its preservation.
education country medicine
I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating the public education, and placing our rising generation on the level of our sister states (which they have proudly held heretofore), I was discharging the odious function of a physician pouring medicine down the throat of a patient insensible of needing it.
education want poverty
The truth is that the want of common education with us is not from our poverty, but from the want of an orderly system. More money is now paid for the education of a part than would be paid for that of the whole if systematically arranged.
educational school people
One of the people who most influenced me was Ben Shapiro, a marketing professor at the business school. He used to rant and rave and pound his fist: 'It's all about the customers!' And he was right. He was also right that, at that time, retailing was devoid of really talented people; he urged me to go in that direction. Thomas G. Stemberg
educational fall forget
Forget 'branding' and 'positioning.' Once you understand customer behavior, everything else falls into place.
educational shoes not-good-enough
If a customer walks out without shoes, you really want to find out why. 'It didn't fit' is not good enough.
education daughter mother
When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.' Thomas Friedman
educational parent church
And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest. Thomas Keneally
education people acquisition
I have no sympathy whatever with those who would grudge our workmen and our common people the very highest acquisitions which their taste or their time or their inclination would lead them to realize. Thomas Chalmers
education class training
A very large part of English middle-class education is devoted to the training of servants...In so far as it is, by definition, the training of upper servants, it includes, of course, the instilling of that kind of confidence which will enable the upper servants to supervise and direct the lower servants. Raymond Williams
education ideas knowledge-learning
Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research. Raymond Queneau
education errors giving
Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself. Vilfredo Pareto