Quotes about education
education people world
If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand you don't fatten your lambs by weighing them? Jonathan Kozol
education suicide children
More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build a lot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities.
education teaching keys
The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't. Jonathan Alter
education bigs periods
I'm a big believer in education, period. Jon Secada
education growing-up humorous
I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up. Lenny Bruce
education procrastination numbers
If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act. Lee Iacocca
education teacher responsibility
In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have.
educational ideas want
We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want. Laura Ashley
educational zuckerberg creating
When I look at founders and CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook and Brian Chesky at Airbnb and Sebastian Thrun at Udacity, these are companies that are creating extraordinary social good and extraordinary economic and educational empowerment, all within with context of a for-profit model. Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
education children book
Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open. Laura Bush
educational eye numbers
The nature of competition is such that any number of people invariably have their eyes on the same prize you do. Recognize your assets and employ them to the best of your ability. Larry Bird
educational thinking mules
Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?' Terry Pratchett
education disease discworld
Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease.
educational men way
Rousseau ranks among the great educational theorists of the modern era, even if he was the last man to put in charge of a classroom. Young adults, he thought, should be allowed to develop their capabilities in their distinctive way. Terry Eagleton
education eagles wings
You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world. Tom Petty
education children creating
Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives. Simone Weil
education teacher teaching
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
education real attention
The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.
education order pearls
Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it.
educational cutting men
If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard. Simon Newcomb
educational positive-experiences share
How much do you as a consumer value a positive experience with a brand or its customer service department? How willing are you to share that with your friends? How inclined are you to let that person know that you're interaction with them was positive? Simon Mainwaring
educational expectations marketing
Setting customer expectations at a level that is aligned with consistently deliverable levels of customer service requires that your whole staff, from product development to marketing, works in harmony with your brand image. Richard Branson
education sensibility
We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence. Remy de Gourmont
educational lying simple
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
education office kind
Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate. Rem Koolhaas
educational technology impact
A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens. Tim Holden
education college ideas
Education is being redefined at the demand of the uneducated to suit the ideas of the uneducated. The student now goes to college to proclaim, rather than to learn. Spiro T. Agnew
educational political body
The era of appeasement must come to an end. The political and social demands that dissidents are making of the universities do not flow from sound basic educational criteria, but from strategic considerations on how to radicalize the student body, polarize the campus and extend the privileged enclaves of student power.
education rocks white
One modest suggestion for my friends in the academic community: the next time a mob of students, waving their non-negotiable demands, starts pitching bricks and rocks at the student union- just imagine they are wearing brown shirts or white sheets- and act accordingly.
educational ignorance race
To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom is the very height of ignorance and futility. Sri Aurobindo
education school hobbies
My hobby more and more is likely to be common school education, or universal education. Rutherford B. Hayes
education school men
A few ideas seem to be agreed upon. Help none but those who help themselves. Educate only at schools which provide in some form for industrial education. These two points should be insisted upon. Let the normal instruction be that men must earn their own living, and that by the labor of their hands as far as may be. This is the gospel of salvation for the colored man. Let the labor not be servile, but in manly occupations like that of the carpenter, the farmer, and the blacksmith.
education country countries-of-the-world
General education is the best preventive of the evils now most dreaded. In the civilized countries of the world, the question is how to distribute most generally and equally the property of the world. As a rule, where education is most general the distribution of property is most general.... As knowledge spreads, wealth spreads. To diffuse knowledge is to diffuse wealth. To give all an equal chance to acquire knowledge is the best and surest way to give all an equal chance to acquire property.