Education Quotes
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I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.
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The organization I founded in 1993, Camfed (the Campaign for Female Education), was in large part inspired by the generosity shown to me by a community in a village in Zimbabwe. During my visit to Mola to research girls' exclusion from education, the people of Mola fed me, shaded me, walked and talked with me for hours each day.
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To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.
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Instead of trying to educate the human race, they should imitate the pedagogues of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, who concentrated their efforts on the education of a single person.
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I now realize that education is a last wild effort on the part of the authorities to prevent an overdose of leisure from driving the world mad. Learning is no longer an improver; it is merely the most expensive time-filler the world has ever known.
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A sharp difference should exist between general education and specialized knowledge. As particularly today the latter threatens more and more to sink into the service of pure Mammon, general education, at least in its more ideal attitude, must be retained as a counterweight.
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The International Declaration of Human Rights says the right to housing, health, education should be guaranteed to everyone. The moment these things are provided, we will have a different world order and nuclear weapons will become less of a threat.
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When I was a child, the Earth was said to be two billion years old. Now scientists say it's four and a half billion. So that makes me two and a half billion.
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I was going to get a degree in economics and be a teacher. But I couldn't afford to pay for the education. So I just got the MBA and not the doctorate. I loved it at Bain, and I've been there ever since.
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I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor inner-city white kids in Boston. It was interesting to me because I'd never been around poor whites before.
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It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.
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The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor.
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The first duty of a government is to give education to the people.
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Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.
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Education is the foundation of a lasting, prosperous, creative and rewarding hairdressing career. It raises standards of craftsmanship and professionalism throughout our industry.
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I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.
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Gain some knowledge. If not from the Bible or Koran, get a book from college.
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The NFL has done a great job in giving players information on how to go to a second career after football and how to invest their money while they're playing to ensure when their career is over, that they have something else in place to fall back on. One of the big things the NFL does is promote education in different fields.
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Education is a seamless web: one level of learning relates to every other.
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I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York.
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The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
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Until lawmakers can disentangle property taxes from public education, inequalities - perpetuated by the Supreme Court and Congress - will persist.
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That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
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We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
