Edward Glaeser Quotes
Infrastructure eventually becomes obsolete, but education perpetuates itself as one smart generation teaches the next. In the United States and Europe, industrialization rarely encouraged education.Edward Glaeser
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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.
Obiageli Ezekwesili -
When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.
Jackie Chan -
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 -
And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.
Rainn Wilson -
I think higher education is over-regulated.
Lamar Alexander -
If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.
Wendy Kopp
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
Abigail Adams -
Our education system is not preparing young people for the world they will face.
Brown Campbell -
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
Karl Kraus -
I believe education is much more important than we assume.
Daniel Barenboim -
I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements.
Vanessa Carlton -
You can have the best product in the world, you can have the best motivation in the world, you can have best education in the world, you can have all the money in the world - but if you don't have direction, you'll never go anywhere.
E. Joseph Cossman
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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.
Albert Einstein -
Obedience is the primary object of all sound education.
Elizabeth Missing Sewell -
At 16, I got into local-education archaeology classes - you got to go to summer digs. It allowed me to be both intellectual and a bad girl with a wicked social life every evening!
Mary Beard -
The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture.
Nelson Mandela -
There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.
David Hume -
Sometimes life limits your choices - rising tuition costs may put university out of reach, or like me, personal circumstances might simply make it difficult to complete your education.
Jameela Jamil
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Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
Mary Astell -
Education is the great equalizer, and shouldn’t be limited to the wealthiest few.
Jim Clyburn -
Learning how to work and learning how to fail is important.
Jamie Moyer -
Eye was a great discovery. He is one of the great vocalists of all time.
John Zorn -
Infrastructure eventually becomes obsolete, but education perpetuates itself as one smart generation teaches the next. In the United States and Europe, industrialization rarely encouraged education.
Edward Glaeser