What Is Education Quotes
And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.
Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.
In 50 years, there will be only 10 institutions in the world delivering higher education and Udacity has a shot at being one of them.
At the current pace of change, we won't have universal access to education in 100 years, let alone five, and that is unacceptable.
Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.
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.
Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what he learns and the way he understands it.
Education is an adventurous quest for the meaning of life, involving an ability to think things through. --Z. Applewhite.
I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.
One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.
The very reason for nature's existence is the education of the soul; it has no other meaning.
Money never remains just coins and pieces of paper. Money can be translated into the beauty of living, a support in misfortune, an education, or future security.
I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class.
Saving habits - in itself an education is now. It reinforces your strengths, teaching you how to refuse, orderly thinking, think before you act and thus expand your mind
Education is a priority over any sport because without a mind you can't contribute to society.
But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.
The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations.
Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.
You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances.
I know that my companions from the moment of birth were heaven's choicest souls. I grew side by side with them, in fact all the education and inspiration came over them.
You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past.
Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.
The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day.
If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.
Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.
Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we must harness the energy and creativity of all our citizens.
I must dedicate my life to teaching my people, for only education would make their lot less bitter, their latent power more strong.
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.
That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.
Respect for the dignity of others includes treating them as rational creatures capable of being persuadad by rational argument, even in the face of frequent evidence to the contrary.