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Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.
My dad didn’t have a formal education, but he had a wonderful vocabulary. So in ‘Harvest,’ I wanted my main character to be an innately intelligent man who would have the vocabulary to say whatever he wanted in the same way as lots of working-class people can.
You can accomplish anything, if you are focused and determined, believe in yourself, and get education and certifications that will give you confidence.
One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it’s very complex, it’s very profound.
Do you know who the real hypocrite is? It’s the federal government and the Justice Department. It’s a fraud; it’s a lie. They have no interest in the education of black children. They are only interested in the politics of it.
I suggest that those groups whose culture and values stress delayed gratification – education, hard work, success, and ambition – are those groups that succeed in America, regardless of discrimination.
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
America is the best half-educated country in the world.
I really don’t want you to think of Qatar as a hydrocarbon country alone. We know that hydrocarbons will come and go. But education will stay. It is the most important thing for us.
It’s hard to improve public education – that’s clear.
Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests – not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA.
Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.
If we provide quality education to one generation, poverty will automatically be eradicated from society.
Education is everything – education is your power, education is your way in life for whatever you want to do.
My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs – in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.
An education system where student selection is based on credit capacity and not merit capacity and where graduating students are no longer indebted to the nation, but increasingly indebted to the Australian Taxation Office – that’s no way to improve the quality of education.
Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
We all know that education unlocks the door of opportunity for the young.
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.
In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It’s their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education… it’s like a precious gift. It’s like a diamond.
Global poverty is a complex web of interlinked problems. There is no one ‘silver bullet‘ that will solve global inequality. Multiple contributing factors must be tackled in parallel. Yes, education alone is unlikely to lead to employment without economic reform to address the demand side in much of the developing world.
Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.
I’ve known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that’s so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn’t you take university courses throughout your entire life?
If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.
The greatest stain upon this great Australian nation’s character, without any question, is the great gaps that exist between our Aboriginal brothers and sisters in terms of their health, their education, their living conditions, their incarceration rates and life expectancy. It’s a great stain.
The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval. If they fail once, twice, or thrice, censure not.
Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
The economy is the start and end of everything. You can’t have successful education reform or any other reform if you don’t have a strong economy.
When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.
Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It’s about being educated.
Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.
I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.
The support of my mother has made such a difference in my life, sacrificing everything to make sure that we went to school, did our homework, got an education. That was one person supporting me, and it takes more than one person in our community to help raise our children.
If you want a good education, go to private schools. If you can’t afford it, tough luck. You can go to the public school.
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
Life isn’t all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman‘s education.
Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.
As a product of education, I have always believed in the power of education as the most powerful, high-impact catalyst for transformation. Look at the impact that the Indian Institutes of Technology have had globally.
Education is the key. But it’s the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don’t have it.
We say arts education is good for general education, but that’s not the point. The arts are what great nations are remembered for. They are a mirror.
Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
School is something that you learn – reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.
I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life.
‘No Child Left Behind’ requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.
Education is not about thinning the herd. Education is about helping every student succeed.
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.
Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program.
I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
In America we have big issues with education – in impoverished communities especially. I work with Teach For All, and so we’re encouraging more people to get into teaching.
The mark of higher education isn’t the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It’s the skills you gain about how to learn.
Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.
Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.
My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but then he was promoted to be in charge of education for the entire area. He was always an inspirational teacher. He was my big personal supporter, always coming here for the Tony Awards. My mother, Carmel, was a homemaker.
Education is not an end to itself. You need to know algebra but also how to navigate the world.
Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her.
We think about education as a stepping stone into a higher socio-economic class, into a better job. And it does do those things. But I don’t think that’s what it really is. I experienced it as getting access to different ideas and perspectives and using them to construct my own mind.
I started my career in parent education with the idea that we needed to let our kids go. I believed that parents were suffocating for their children. There was no room for individuality and personhood.
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
Addressing governance issues are important because whichever silo you work in, be it education, microfinance, sanitation, food or health, you would eventually hit governance deficit.
From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
I would like to be a terrorist for music education – to make a complete reform, all over the world.
My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups – development, testing, marketing, user education.
The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.
As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.
Some parents do not send their children to school because they don’t know its importance at all.
Education is such a noble profession, it’s a wonderful way to serve.
All school districts receive funds from the federal government, through the Department of Education, to support anti-drug education efforts.
We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.
The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise… Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
Higher education should provide an environment to test new ideas, debate theories, encounter challenging information, and figure out what one believes.
A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.
I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.
Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.
Without an education, you won’t have a future.
Responsibility educates.
All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.
Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they’re 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
If you invest in education and training of our young people, what you do is you increase the future economic capacity of the nation.
We know that education is the key to unlocking human potential.
Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life.
Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.
Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.
My mom and dad were ‘helicopter parents,’ literally. Meaning, I didn’t have a nanny, so I went up in the helicopter. My entire early childhood education consisted of tagging along while they reported on car accidents, multiple-alarm fires, and shootouts.
The benefits of prison education go beyond lowering recidivism rates and increasing post-release employment. It can also rekindle a sense of purpose and confidence.
Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
Education in India has made monumental progress since Independence but continues to face daunting challenges at multiple levels, particularly in terms of quality, infrastructure and dropout rates. We have islands of excellence floating in a sea of mediocrity.
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
Moral Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical equilibrium or sense of balance, without which it is impossible to stand upright or to move into any other position.
What we need is a strong education system that allows creativity to grow and encourages students to be interested in science and technology.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.
Education is the best economic policy there is.
It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.
Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today’s kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years.
At the end of the day, the true value proposition of education is employment.
No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.
It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
The most valuable investment we can make is in our children’s education. When we make education a priority, we give our children opportunity. Opportunity to learn at higher levels than their parents were able to learn; to earn at higher levels than we were able to earn.
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s leisure.
Like most fathers, I would do anything for my children, and I’ve worked very hard at trying to be a good father. I want to give them education, security, everything I never had.
One of the best things to me about ‘Skate’ is that if you play this game from beginning to end, you just got a complete education on what skateboarding is.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
As technology increasingly takes over knowledge-based work, the cognitive skills that are central to today’s education systems will remain important; but behavioral and non-cognitive skills necessary for collaboration, innovation, and problem solving will become essential as well.
Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.
Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
I’m opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education, or public health, period.
‘Make in India’ is great, but ‘Make It Happen in India’ is even greater. Make It Happen in India is more than manufacturing. It’s about training, about education, about societal development and automation and engineering.
I’ve been on food stamps and welfare. Anybody help me out? No. No. They gave me hope, and they gave me encouragement, and they gave me a vision. That came from my education.
You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life.
I am proud to be part of a community that only projects love and education and the support of one another.
You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.
I believe education should be a right for every child, but tragically in many parts of world it is a privilege for certain children whose parents have money. There are 72 million children in the world who don’t go to school and many of them are in Africa.
Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.
I never stop reading. I read everything, and I read every day. If you never read anything, be curious. Curiosity is the true foundation of education, reading things that we’ve factually already agreed on, and I love reading books. With that said, it’s more important that you ask the question ‘why.’
If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
All of the things an arts education gives a young person enhance leadership skills and help raise grades.
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.
I would say that something important for me and for my generation in Northern Ireland was the 1947 Education Act, which allowed students who won scholarships to go on to secondary schools and thence to university.
An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.
On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.
Education has for its object the formation of character.
For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a march from violence to peace.
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.
Improvement of civic facilities is among our priorities, and for this purpose, education, health, infrastructure and transport sectors are being improved through revolutionary steps. Citizens will benefit from all these projects, and their living standard will be raised.
You can’t have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they’re not going to hear them in America. I believe it’s part of their education.
Now the problem with standardized tests is that it’s based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can’t, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not.
I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian.
Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.
The best solution to income inequality is providing a high-quality education for everybody. In our highly technological, globalized economy, people without education will not be able to improve their economic situation.
The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student’s education.
For me, revolution is around young people with no skills, college education, and coming from everywhere having an economic impact on an entire system which no one notices.
Besides taking jobs from American workers, illegal immigration creates huge economic burdens on our health care system, our education system, our criminal justice system, our environment, our infrastructure and our public safety.
From exam grading to health education to professional training to democratic participation, paths towards self-realization and success in the world are often daunting and obscure: journeys only the privileged feel confident setting off along.
Education is the vaccine for violence.
It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.
You discover that the education the Negro gets is designed to keep him subservient. The poor black man is exploited by whites and by educated Negroes, too.
It doesn’t matter where you’re from. You can be from the hood or the suburbs. You can be poor with no education or a college graduate. No matter your background, you can win.
There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.
Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one’s own culture and social organisation.
We believed that there’s no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it’s bad, it’s something else. It was a much, much harder line in the ’50s and ’60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn’t exist – they didn’t have a fine arts program when I was a kid.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.
Public education is our greatest pathway to opportunity in America. So we need to invest in and strengthen our public universities today, and for generations to come.
What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.
The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
When I started my engineering, I had to support my education expenses; I was then studying in what is now the National Institute of Technology in Srinagar.
The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.
We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms.
Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
Education is the key solution for change, for peace, and for help in the fight against racism and discrimination in general.
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.
Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There’s no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.
The mere imparting of information is not education.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
We cannot create observers by saying ‘observe’, but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, ‘Is it? Why? Why is it like that?’ Sometimes that questioning leads to something more.
Because I’ve never had any higher education of any sort, I’ve never held in awe those who have had it or have a sense of superiority over those who don’t.
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Seeing the world is the best education you can get. You see sorrow, and you also see great spirit and will to survive.
Apart from education, you need good health, and for that, you need to play sports.
There is a disconnect in education and work. And corporates don’t do a great job of skilling. In future, corporates and educational institutions will work closely.
My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.
The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.
It is only the ignorant who despise education.
Education is important because it prepares you for life.
College costs continue to rise, and student loan debt threatens to price many Americans out of a college education and out of the middle class.
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t.
Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning.
I had been raised in the mountains of Idaho by a father who distrusted many of the institutions that people take for granted – public education, doctors and hospitals, and the government.
Students want free education because their parents are struggling. The fees of universities and technikons are too high.
The problem is, education in America is sub-optimal because it is an impossible thing to optimize. It necessarily has to be local because different schools face different problems. There are no one-size-fits-all solutions.
A college education shows a man how little other people know.
Even Milton Friedman – doyen of radical free market thought – was willing to consider some government intervention into primary education on the grounds that it is unfair for children to not get a chance in life because they were born to poor parents.
I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will – that’s just the bottom line.
During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.
Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.
I’m all for education.
Man can and does rationalize his sins. He finds reasons for all his weakness, invents excuses that first calm and then deaden his conscience. He blames God, society, education, and environment for his wrong doing.
Without tact you can learn nothing.
If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
We know from scientific studies that infants as young as six months old can distinguish right from wrong and have a preference for the good over the bad. I think it’s important to design our education and our schools around that insight, to bring out the best in our kids.
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
There’s a reasonable amount of traction in college education, particularly engineering, because quite a lot of that is privatized, so there is an incentive to set up new colleges of reasonably high quality.
Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.
Elimination of child labour and access to education are like two sides of one coin. One cannot be achieved without the other.
Disabled people need more invested in their education, housing, job training, transportation, assistive technology, and independent-living facilities. Governments earn back this investment – and more – by making people with disabilities economically productive citizens.
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
I believe strongly in the power of arts education to engage and empower young people.
Learn to think continentally.
In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.
Ensuring that we help prepare all kids for life, college, and work in our knowledge-based economy will require a collaborative, sustained effort from all stakeholders – from the president and the secretary of education on down to states, school districts, principals, teachers, parents, and community members.
When it comes to sending my children to college, I want the best education. It’s the only thing I’m really leaving them – a good education.
Providing a quality education for children starts before they even arrive at school.
To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.
If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers – if that’s where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either.
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.
We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.
Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.
In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked to lay a new foundation for economic growth. The president identified three key strategies to build that lasting prosperity: innovation, investment, and education.
Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.
When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.
There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.
I’ve become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays because I use every chance I get to ask faculty and administrators of management education programs why we don’t offer at least one course – not even required, just an elective – on the world’s religions.
Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.
Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all.
I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.
Education is the only way forward in Latin America and developing countries in general.
All over the world, independent and strong civil society – NGOs, faith leaders, and other community advocates – help governments solve problems and better serve their people better by shining a light on the issues that matter most – like education standards, access to healthcare, the rule of law, and economic opportunity.
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
Education is the development of power and ideal.
A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
In my day we didn’t have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.
No one bill will cure the problem of spam. It will take a combined effort of legislation, litigation, enforcement, customer education, and technology solutions.
My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only in the education of little children from three to six years of age, but can be extended to children up to ten years of age.
My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child.
To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.
One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.
Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.
Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.
The right to a quality education is, I believe, the perfect path to bridge the gap between different cultures and to reconcile various civilizations. Without such a right, the values of liberty, justice and equality will have no meaning. Ignorance is by far the biggest danger and threat to humankind.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
A girl child who is even a little bit educated is more conscious of family planning, health care and, in turn, her children’s own education.
Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon.
Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
Education teaches us compassion and kindness, connection to others.
Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement.
What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society.
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
I believe in God, but in my own unconventional way. We’re not affiliated with any organisation, and I have no religious education of any kind, but I definitely have my own kind of ideas about it.
I’d done all the things I thought a person had to do in order to be successful and fulfilled, like getting a great education and becoming a lawyer, and yet there was zero spark in my life. But there was no light-bulb moment. It was gradual. In the early 1990s, I decided to experiment and try some new ways of living.
A one-size-fits-all lecture is not the way to go about education.
No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.
Yes, people need food and education. But one of the cornerstones of any society is a well-functioning legal system.
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
I had a very, very interesting childhood, but, oh my, education was the primary focus in our family.
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you’re going to be 20 years from now is how well you’re doing in your education system.
We need to focus on helping EVERY child to get a world-class education in EVERY school in this country.
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
There is no education like adversity.
We see that in the top problems in the world between haves and have-nots, generally we find that the root cause is education.
Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future.
The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
The first step in securing our cyber future is education, and that means everything from educating individuals to companies to the next generation of IT professionals.
My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
Conservatism is the perfect antidote to underdevelopment. Its commitment to individual responsibility, education, hard work, personal initiative, traditional family values and free markets is a universal formula for success in a free society.
Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.
Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years’ worth of education.
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.
Early childhood education remains one of the strongest investments we can make in the long-term success of our students and the long-term economic strength of our communities.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.
Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.
The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand.
I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
In every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.
I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field – no matter how rich or poor, tall or short, pretty or ugly to the bone, if you can draw, you can find personal fulfillment and build self-confidence. Art is the highest achievement of mankind.
My countrymen, I have given proofs that I am one most anxious for liberties for our country, and I am still desirous of them. But I place as a prior condition the education of the people, that by means of instruction and industry our country may have an individuality of its own and make itself worthy of these liberties.
Education has to be more than tests and formulas.
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.
Education is the gateway to the American Dream. But today our immigration laws make higher education – a virtual requirement for financial security – out of reach for more than one million undocumented students.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Research shows that when women are empowered as political leaders, countries often experience higher standards of living with positive developments in education, infrastructure, and health care.
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.
To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
Sex education has to do with what’s in people’s head.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
One of the most beautiful things about Britain, apart from the NHS and the free education, is the British Army.
Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
Every parent wants to do what’s best for their child. Whatever I can afford, I’m going to get my kid the best education I can get.
Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don’t just stand there, make it happen.
I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister… because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.
As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
A good education is the most important gift we can give our young people.
Education is freedom.
Education is and will be the most powerful tool for individual and social change, and we must do all that it takes to facilitate it.
If you take a look at the breaches of rights, whether it’s the underfunding of education or health care, and all these issues which accentuate the poverty of Canada‘s indigenous people, and the lack of reaction to them – it becomes clear that if Canadians understood what’s at stake, they wouldn’t stand for it.
The test and the use of man’s education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.
Education is the art of making man ethical.
It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.
Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.
If we want boys to succeed, we need to bring them back to education by making education relevant to them and bring in more service learning and vocational education.
Our universities and museums are respected around the country.
The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.
Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I’m going to complete every pass.
We don’t have the money in America to keep paying for the education of everybody else‘s children from around the world. We simply don’t have the financial resources to do that.
I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education.
Free education for all – whilst it is a desirable notion, in South Africa it will simply not be affordable.
A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
Education begins at home. You can’t blame the school for not putting into your child what you don’t put into him.
Change is the end result of all true learning.
A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
Higher education is a cornerstone of our state’s future.
Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will have been taught by the parents, who are not aware of what they are doing.
I think the combination of graduate education in a field like Computer Science and the opportunity to apply this in a work environment like Microsoft is what drove me. The impact these opportunities create can lead to work that has broad, worldwide impact.
Boosting education will be a direct counterbalance to Boko Haram’s appeal. In particular we must educate more young girls, ensuring they will grow up to be empowered through learning to play their full part as citizens of Nigeria and pull themselves up and out of poverty.
Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.
For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don’t make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you’re told you’re too tall or you’re too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You’re rejected for your education, you’re rejected for this or that and it’s really tough.
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
An absence of credible information prevents citizens from participating in public decision-making, particularly on key issues of concern such as education, health, and governance.
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
