Education Quotes
The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life problem.
Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.
I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can't arrest me.
Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.
So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.
It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.
I still believe that the Democrats have it right about health care, education, the war in Iraq and, yes the war on terror.
Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.
My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.
The lack of education and lack of skills don't hurt the unemployed, they hurt America and American business, making us less competitive in the global market.
If a foreign government had imposed this system of education on the United States, we would rightly consider it an act of war.
In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.
Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.
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.
We have taken a strategic decision to gather education activities under a single roof.
Our education should be such as to improve our minds and fit us for increased usefulness; to make us of greater service to the human family.
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.
Change is a pesky notion. For many folks, the biggest challenge in changing their eating habits isn't money, time, or education; it's reframing their connection between food and love.
TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.
Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.
Education is very political, because when you educate the people, then you have a country that you can't fool anymore.
See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning.
The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.
I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry.
Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.
Power-over is resorted to time without number because people will not wait for the slower process of education.
Public education has served as a check on the power of parents, and this is another powerful reason for maintaining it.
Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.
We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
Doors will slam in your face. You must pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and knock again; it's the only way to achieve your goals in life.
I love mathematics...principally because it is beautiful; because man has breathed his spirit of play into it, and because it has given him his greatest game the encompassing of the infinite.
Because of the flexibility that community colleges afford, many students do not have to choose between an education and fulfilling other responsibilities - they can do both.
The fundamental basis of education must always remain that one must act for oneself. That is clear. One must act for him or herself.
We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself!
The greatest danger of traditional education is that learning may remain purely verbal.
Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation.
Not everyone has equal abilities, but everyone should have equal opportunity for education.
People see poverty all around them in India, but they are desensitized or immune to it. I came to the conclusion that poverty is driven by lack of education.