Plato Quotes
Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.
Quotes to Explore
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Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
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I met Arthur Ashe a few times. I know how important education was to him.
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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.
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.
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One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.
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I was on the beach every summer. That was the pleasant part of my childhood because we were right by the sea. We'd take a picnic, and I'd spend hours in the water until I turned blue. You couldn't get me out of there.
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Bringing GIS into schools gets the kids very excited and indirectly teaches them different components of STEM education. That's been illustrated at school after school.
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.
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After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.
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I like working on stories where I can explore the darker corners of childhood without illustrations but with humor.
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The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing.
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When you have teachers saying, 'I don't have enough time for hands-on activities,' we need to rethink the way we do education.
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I just kept telling myself that ultimately, the money that my grandparents had put away to go into my college fund, that they were investing for me to go to school and get this education, it had to be worth something.
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Let's make sure that we are working for age-appropriate sex education in our school system.
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You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing.
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There is no point in me worrying about what Bloomberg or Badillo will do.
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Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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You don't have to subject yourself to the sweep and rigor of Bourdieu's book 'Distinction' to feel how thoroughly a lower-calorie version of its ideas has been absorbed into the cultural bloodstream.
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What it takes just to earn a living - working two or three jobs - is driving a wedge in families that shouldn't be there.
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Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.
