Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ann Veneman

Education of children, especially girls, is the cornerstone to national progress,

Everyone knows where we are in this situation, ... I don't have to provide further education in that deal, and Mike has stated publicly where he is. So, you go about doing your stuff and that's all there is to it.

a very solid, very realistic starting point for the discussions about education funding in 2006.

As long as the governor has education in the mix, the public will be supportive.

David Naughton

That was a big part of my education, seeing such great actors night after night.

A large part of scouting is about outdoor education.

Bennett's statement is outrageous. As a former secretary of education, he should know better, ... His program should be pulled from the air.

Big data in education has huge potential to improve learning materials.

Every race is an education for a race horse. But this is a $750,000 Grade I race.

Nicholas Negroponte

Every single problem you can think of, poverty, peace, the environment, is solved with education or including education,

Nancy Greene

For a nation, I'm not sure why we value equity over excellence, ... All kids are entitled to an appropriate education for their ability, not just those we're teaching to a minimum standard.

It's more like the Oxford model of education, where a student takes on a project, goes off and does it and comes back to report on it,

Ernest Renan

His glory Jesus Christ does not consist in beingplaced without the confines of history; a more real worship is paid to him, by showing that the whole of history is incomprehensible without him.

Ernest Dimnet

A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare you for life.

Erin Gruwell

I believe that education is the greatest equalizer; thus, I will continue to fight to equalize the playing field in an educational atmosphere that is not always level!

Carmelo Anthony

I think going to college for that one year was probable the best thing I have ever done.

Murray Gell-Mann

Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.

Kumar Mangalam Birla

There are two roadblocks in the way of transforming India into an economic giant and one of them was education. I believe that if education is privatised at primary and secondary level, lot of our problems will be answered to

Frank Zappa

My English teacher, he's like, he's like Mr. Bu-fu.

Frank Zappa

My school spirit is at an all time low, I'm losing my status at the school.

Frank Zappa

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

Fred Rogers

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

George Henry Lewes

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

George H. W. Bush

Learning is good in and of itself...the mothers of the Jewish ghettoes of the east would pour honey on a book so the children would know that learning is sweet. And the parents who settled hungry Kansas would take their children in from the fields when a teacher came.

Harold Bloom

The true use of Shakespeare or of Cervantes, of Homer or of Dante, of Chaucer or of Rabelais, is to augment one's own growing inner self. . . . The mind's dialogue with itself is not primarily a social reality. All that the Western Canon can bring one is the proper use of one's own solitude, that solitude whose final form is one's confrontation with one's own mortality.

Haim Ginott

I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.

Greg Perry

Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which is memorization of spelling patterns. In doing so, they ensure that children will neither be able to read nor calculate.

H. G. Wells

His studies were pursued but never effectually overtaken.

H. G. Wells

The world state must begin; it can only begin, as a propaganda cult, or as a group of propagandist cults, to which men and women must give themselves and their energies, regardless of the consequence to themselves The activities of a cult which sets itself to bring about the world-state would at first be propagandist, they would be intellectual and educational, and only as a sufficient mass of opinion and will had accumulated would they become to a predominant extent politically constructive. Such a cult must direct itself particularly to the teaching of the young.

C. Everett Koop

There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.

C. Everett Koop

There have been some good studies done in California with Hispanic parents where in the course of a year, they have changed their entire nutritional intake for the better. The kid becomes, in a sense, the bridge between the educational process and the home.

Joseph Joubert

Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.

Joseph Joubert

To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.