Will Durant Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
-
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.
-
I've made a lifetime commitment to the union movement and to public 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.
-
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.
-
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Our education system is not preparing young people for the world they will face.
-
I'm very committed to stable and adequate funding for education.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.
-
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
-
I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.
-
The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.
-
The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.
-
[T]hey stretch you on a table. Then they bid you close your eyelids, And they mask you with a napkin, And the anæsthetic reaches Hot and subtle through your being.
-
The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island.
-
I was real, real sad about that play. Four more outs to throw a no-hitter ... I was really sad. I saw the play on the field and thought he was out. But he's human (umpire Bill Miller) and anybody can make a mistake.
-
Education is the transformation of civilisation.
