What Is Education Quotes

You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs.

The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.

Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of.

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

Kids can and will thrive in the right conditions, but it all seems to start with the teachers, and giving those teachers the resources to teach- and not just to test.

But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.

You can present the material, but you can't make me care.

The word "education" comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.

In order to be a teacher you've got to be a student first

Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.

Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.

To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education.

Gym should be illegal. It's humiliating.

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.

All men are born free: just not for long.

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

In the end, it's not what we keep our children from that will save them. It's what we put into them in the first place.

I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.

The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.

Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express the emotions in beauty and the mind with accuracy and strength.

Everything I do is kind of a lesson, even if I am the only person who learns it.

We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.

I'm as proud of my inconsistencies as I am my consistencies.

Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.

Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

Education provides the fullest opportunities for fulfilling ourselves. It is the access to all that a person has yet to learn.

Because education is such a broad area, I chose to focus on language learning.

Good teachers are to education what education is to all other professions—the indispensable element, the sunlight and oxygen, the foundation on which everything else is built.

Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors.

We must open the doors of opportunity. We must equip our people to walk through those doors.

Education is the foundation of success. Just as scholastic skills are vitally important, so are financial skills and communication skills.

I believe in education and wish I had a better one.

My school spirit is at an all time low, I'm losing my status at the school.

Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth.

Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.

Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal, than accused of deficiency in the graces.

Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.

We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.

There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests

Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy.

Let me ask you: Should only children of the wealthy have access to quality early education? Should only children of the wealthy have access to a college degree? The answer - the only answer - is: no.

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.

One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the mathematical imagination.

Self-education only produces expressions of self.

To entrust the government with the power of determining the education which our children receive is entrusting our servant with the power to be our master.

Education can be dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is almost impossible.