Education Quotes
The policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. The alternative to it is the long difficult road of education. To this the American people have committed.
It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's; remedial readin', remedial 'ritin' and remedial 'rithmetic.
Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.
Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
cultivate in young minds an equal love of the good, the beautiful and the absurd; most people's lives are too lead-colored to lose the smallest twinkle of light from a flash of nonsense.
You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
I think the inconveniences of a segregated education are much greater than the inconveniences of busing students so that they can get an integrated quality education.
Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
Investment in girls' education may well be the highest-return investment available in the developing world.
The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.
There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to work together to educate the United States about marketing overseas.
Much of coaching consists of teaching and communicating ideas, concepts and philosophies to the players and my education helped make me a much more effective coach.
Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.
Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.
A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.
I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.
In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity - or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity - by being opinionated rather than by being learned.
In 2003, Congress authorized the construction of a visitor center for the Vietnam Memorial to help provide information and educate the public about the memorial and the Vietnam War.
To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason.
These people marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education and now we've got these knuckleheads walking round.
I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young. I get very concerned when people talk about cutting education budgets.
One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.
All too many churchmen view the undisciplined & amoral products of statist education as evidences of the failure of these schools. On the contrary, they are evidences of their success.
The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others.
That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.
You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.
The teachers don't know anything. What are the kids going to learn with a horrible education system?
Education and the workforce: I think these two things go together in terms of human potential.
In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education
Education is the way to move mountains, to build bridges, to change the world. Education is the path to the future. I believe that education is indeed freedom.
A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.
Education is paradoxical in that it is largely composed of things that cannot be learned
It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.
Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.
When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.
Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness.
So are all the kids on the East Coast repeating school next year? Get ready to see a lot of hairy eighth graders. Storm brain drain.
Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate... We stand together on so many issues: economic prosperity, quality education for all, protecting a woman's right to choose
Our system of education is locked in a time capsule. You want to say to the people in charge, 'You're not using today's tools! Wake up!'