Tom Stoppard Quotes

Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.

Tom Stoppard

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• Education is the cheap defense of nations.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Education
  • Nations
  • Defense

• If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • American
  • Education
  • Single

• But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Up
  • Important
  • Kids

• 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

• The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Education
  • Information

• 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.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • Children
  • Society
  • Education

• When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Money
  • Education
  • Care

• The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Work
  • Family
  • Fun

• Education is a way of empowering people; it opens up so many doors and is fundamental to everybody. And teachers are not often appreciated in the way that they should be.

  

  Camila Alves
  • People
  • Up
  • Education

• I give the children education.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Children
  • Education
  • Give

• 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.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Small

• 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.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Women
  • Dream
  • Strong

• In the education of the American people, I am Recess.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • American
  • Education
  • Recess

• It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Real
  • School

• I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Education
  • Learning
  • Always

• In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Great
  • Giving
  • Education

• I realise I have inadvertently become a source of inspiration and hope for people in India simply by the fact that I grew up there, went to my local university, but could go on to do well internationally.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • People
  • Hope
  • Inspiration

• The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • School
  • Education

• One of the hard things in my life has been balancing my education with my acting career, because I've been acting since the age of seven, on and off, just doing little parts and things. I've always been very keen to stay in school.

  

  Anna Popplewell
  • Life
  • School
  • Age

• These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • People
  • Day
  • Justice

• I used to sleep in the T-shirt I wore during the day and whatever ratty old gym shorts I could find on the floor. But one year for Christmas, someone gave me a very chic, comfortable pair of pajamas from Brooks Brothers, and I realized the error of my ways.

  

  Derek Blasberg
  • Sleep
  • Christmas
  • Gym

• I realised that if I did what I wanted to do, it would work.

  

  John Dyer
  • Work

• This might sound strange, but I've never really been a person who has goals of any sort. I tend to just work in the moment, day-to-day, try to make things and make decisions that feel good, and it tends to guide me where I want to go in the long-term.

  

  Ricky Reed
  • Person
  • Strange
  • Decisions

• Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Education
  • University
  • Favour