Edward G. Begle Quotes
Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.
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It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.
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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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My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.
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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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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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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.
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It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.
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When you come through a business education, a lot of what they teach you is to make decisions through analysis, and logic and rationale, and I'm a big believer in that. But I also believe in the power of instinct. The truth is you're never going to have a perfect answer or view of how it is going to work.
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I'm not convinced that abstinence-only education works.
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In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.
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Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
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We need to encourage innovative ideas that give parents better alternatives to prepare children for higher education and for the jobs of the future.
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Good is not good when better is expected.
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But to this day - I'm very literate now, I love to read, I read constantly - words don't resonate the way they do to a person with a formal education. They're like a maze, a puzzle that has to be opened up.
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When I see the Confederate flag, I see the attempt to raise an empire in slavery. It really, really is that simple. I don't understand how anybody with any sort of education on the Civil War can see anything else.
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Sri Sathya Sai Baba as a preacher of the highest human values was an iconic figure for over five decades. He endeared himself to the people through various institutions, with headquarters at Prashanthi Nilayam, that promoted egalitarian values, education and public health.
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117: It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and, learning to be self-critical?
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I do not carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
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Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.
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I am very much a person who likes to change with the times. Education is what it is all about.
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I feel like there's no such thing as gender.
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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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We are in a state where these semi-literate clerics are closing the minds of people.
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Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.
