Jennifer A. Nielsen Quotes

A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

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• Upper education used to open doors. Not so true anymore. The degree used to be a screening tool, but that is falling by the wayside as there are a glut of college grads on the market.

  

  Dale Archer
  • True
  • Education
  • College

• You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• More and more parents and voters have rejected the teachers' union antiquated, top down, one-size-fits-all approach to education and continue to elect candidates who embrace reform that celebrates students and empowers parents.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Parents
  • Education
  • Down

• There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Great
  • Job
  • Education

• Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Education
  • Reading
  • Worth

• Because human development is the most specific and exalted mission of woman, studies in anthropology and theory of pedagogy are essential in girls' education.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Education
  • Woman
  • Mission

• Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Money
  • Culture
  • Education

• I don't really mind not being a part of a film - because if there is no part for me, I will never force myself upon a film. I feel like it's just a distraction. If it is not organically incorporated into the story, it just feels like a stupid appearance, like a sort of wink. I hate that.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Mind
  • Hate
  • Myself

• I became famous so quickly and so young - it was daunting. I was immature and I used to say some really stupid things in interviews. I never smiled on stage so I looked really serious, but it was because I hated my teeth and was incredibly nervous.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Serious
  • Stupid
  • Famous

• My good ideas are shy. But if they see that I treat the stupid ideas with respect, they come forward.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Good
  • Respect
  • Stupid

• Stupid is a great force in human affairs.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Great
  • Stupid
  • Force

• I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Me
  • Stupid
  • Dead

• I have done a lot of stupid things in my life.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Life
  • Done
  • Stupid

• Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Stupid
  • Motives

• As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.

  

  Ed Pastor
  • Important
  • Children
  • School

• I grew up in a Chinese family where the parents' No. 1 priority is the kids' education.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Up
  • Family
  • Kids

• I believe education is much more important than we assume.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Education

• 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.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should be the character of this public education, and how young persons should be educated, are questions which remain to be considered. As things are, there is disagreement about the subjects. For mankind are by no means agreed about the things to be taught, whether we look to virtue or the best life. Neither is it clear whether education is more concerned with intellectual or with moral virtue.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Education
  • Law

• There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • World
  • Better
  • Anything

• I believe that for the typical smoker nicotine satisfaction is the dominant desire, as opposed to flavor and other satisfactions.

  

  R. J. Reynolds
  • Believe
  • Desire
  • Addiction

• I'm a former prosecutor. And for me, the integrity of the justice system is all about the fact that these men and women go to work every day to be there for our country.

  

  Amy Klobuchar
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.

  

  Jennifer A. Nielsen
  • Education
  • Wise
  • Stupid