Education Quotes
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The unions are the worst thing that ever happened to education because it's not a meritocracy. It turns into a bureaucracy, which is exactly what has happened. The teachers can't teach and administrators run the place and nobody can be fired. It's terrible.
Steve Jobs
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At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.
Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
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Cultural imperialism involved, among many other things, exploration, missionary and humanitarian missions, travel, and the use of education and publishing to disseminate European ideas.
George Ritzer
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Some full professors could more accurately be described as empty professors.
Thomas Sowell
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Text is linear; it is black and white; it doesn't zoom around the page in 3-D; it isn't intelligent by itself; in fact, in terms of immediate reaction it is quite boring. I can't imagine a single preliterate was ever wowed at the first sight of text, and yet text has been the basis of arguably the most fundamental intellectual transformation of the human species. It and its subforms, such as algebra, have made science education for all a plausible goal.
Andrea diSessa
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There've been times where I wondered whether it was worth continuing in my own education.
Peter Orszag
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We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that is, the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible; for this divine book, above all others, favors that equality among mankind, that respect for just laws, and all those sober and frugal virtues which constitute the soul of republicanism.
Benjamin Rush
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One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans-- anything except reason.
Thomas Sowell
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The business of education has layed the foundations for nurseries of wise and good men, to adapt our modes of teaching to the peculiar form of our government . . . . He must be taught to love his fellow creatures in every part of the world, but he must cherish with a more intense and peculiar affection the citizens of Pennsylvania and of the United States.
Benjamin Rush
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This isn't higher education studying itself. There are a lot of higher education people here. But there are also people here who are directly involved in whether or not (the United States is) going to have the good jobs in the future.
James Hunt
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Therefore we have to make effort through well through every corner, media people, education sort of institution, and family, parents, everywhere. It is our common goal, common interest promote more compassion toward the world.
Dalai Lama
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Love seems like such a simple thing to ask for. Such a basic right. It takes no skill, no experience, no money, no education, nothing – it can happen to anyone.
But it doesn't happen to everyone.
Even though everyone, deep down, wants it.
Anyway, I do.
Beth Harbison
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Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.
Confucius
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I am a teacher... The life I lead is the most agreeable I can imagine. [In the] classroom ... there await me a group of intelligent and curious young ... [people] who read the books assigned them with a sense of adventure and discovery, discuss them with zest, and listen appreciatively to explications I may offer. What makes the process most satisfying is the conviction that ... education is mankind's most important enterprise.
Moses Hadas
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I think that when I start a season, I speak with my players, and I always talk about education and respect. And I demand this, but I give this.
Antonio Conte
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The duties he won't have are budget, budget development, supervision and discipline of employees. Clearly, Carrol Henderson has played a key role in education and promotion. That's where we need him most.
Brad Moore
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If you borrowed money and went to a college where the education didn't create any value, that is potentially a really big mistake.
Peter Thiel
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There is but one method of rendering a republican form of government durable, and that is by disseminating the seeds of virtue and knowledge through every part of the state by means of proper places and modes of education and this can be done effectively only by the aid of the legislature.
Benjamin Rush
