Education Quotes
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When making choices, or setting policies about the economy, education or medicine, society is best served by electing people who are particularly hardworking, intelligent and interested in long-term thinking.
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Online education is pretty special for two reasons. One is that you can get the very best lecture in the world and wherever you are, whenever you want, you can connect to that lecture. The other is this interactivity, where if you know a topic, you can kind of skip over it. Or if you're confused about it, [the area] where you're confused can be analyzed by software.
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I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.
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If we create a generation of men who aren't getting an education, that's bad for women.
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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.
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There've been times where I wondered whether it was worth continuing in my own education.
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Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. Ghosts are transparent.
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Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
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Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.
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The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.
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Some full professors could more accurately be described as empty professors.
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Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.
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People see poverty all around them in India, but they are desensitized or immune to it. I came to the conclusion that poverty is driven by lack of education.
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I've got no education.
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I have been in schools around the country, and I have written on education for years. Once, I was once doing a profile on Justice William Brennan and I was in his chambers, and Brennan asked, "How do we get the words of the Bill of Rights into the lives of the students?" Well, it is not difficult. You tell them stories.
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I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.
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In Europe, kids learn at least four languages before they're out of high school. But our education system is so underfunded, they go to school to buy heroin and an AK-47.
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This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education.
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My dad didn't have a formal education, but he had a wonderful vocabulary. So in 'Harvest,' I wanted my main character to be an innately intelligent man who would have the vocabulary to say whatever he wanted in the same way as lots of working-class people can.
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It must be the aim of education to teach the citizen that he must first of all rule himself.
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People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.
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I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.
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We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems, before they are capable of appreciating their own.
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We don't have the money in America to keep paying for the education of everybody else's children from around the world. We simply don't have the financial resources to do that.
