Will Durant Quotes

Education is the transformation of civilisation.

Will Durant

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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

• I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.

  

  Candace Camp
  • Writing
  • History
  • Education

• I've done loads of things people have never seen - dramas on BBC4 and plays upstairs at the Royal Court and the Bush - and because I didn't go to drama school, they gave me an education.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • People
  • School
  • Done

• I've made a lifetime commitment to the union movement and to public education.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Education
  • Commitment

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

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • School
  • Education

• Perhaps there is no greater evidence that the teachers' union has swung too far out of the mainstream that they both have been a target of near-constant criticism from Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Education
  • Criticism
  • Target

• 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.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Different
  • School
  • Kids

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

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Education
  • Reading
  • Worth

• In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • World
  • School

• When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Children
  • Education
  • Community

• 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.

  

  G-Eazy
  • School
  • Money
  • Education

• Education, doing homework, is the way to lift up girls. Around the world, where girls are educated, the economy and the standard of living rise.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Up
  • World
  • Education

• Women need to be empowered through the strongest tool - education. They don't need to be subservient to anyone, but at the same time, men must change their mindset towards women. If they are more respectful towards them, then things will change at the grassroots level. It will happen slowly, but everyone has to move together.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• Our education system is not preparing young people for the world they will face.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • People
  • World
  • Education

• I'm very committed to stable and adequate funding for education.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Education
  • Very
  • Funding

• My priority will continue to be that we maintain the optimal balance to be able to invest in education and infrastructure while encouraging business growth.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Business
  • Education
  • Growth

• The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Opportunity
  • Education
  • Quality

• I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Father
  • Education
  • Say

• I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Work
  • Education
  • Goal

• For one cause or another, it has become necessary to impose restrictions upon the use of many commodities, including not a few of the necessities of life.

  

  Mackenzie King
  • Life
  • Necessary
  • Restriction

• I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes. I think I'd throw myself into whatever I'm doing now. It's not about abandoning what I was doing before, or giving up. It's about knowing that if I die tomorrow, I lived the way I wanted to.

  

  Ayumi Hamasaki
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Die

• We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • World
  • Home
  • Words

• Education is the transformation of civilisation.

  

  Will Durant
  • Education
  • Transformation
  • Civilisation