Education Quotes
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The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.
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The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.
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I am here to give the American people some straight talk about higher education. Some have said we might have cut financial aid for college students. The truth is we have expanded access to college for our neediest students through the record growth of the Pell grant program.
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Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized; in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their children a good education.
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It was a slow understanding that the lack of education in a country like Somalia creates these huge social problems.
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Education is the most powerful tool countries have for boosting economic growth, increasing prosperity, and forging more just, peaceful and equitable societies.
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Education doesn't need to be reformed- it needs to be transformed.
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Browsing for books with a mouse and screen is not nearly as joyful an act as wandering the stacks and getting lost in the labyrinthine corridors of knowledge. The best libraries are places of imagination, education and community. The best libraries have mystery to them.
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The stuff that I learned on 'Sons,' the education of how to tell stories, was part of that mythology. It's hard to look at it and go, 'Oh, if I knew this, I would have done it this way,' because the fact is I like to think that all that sort of unraveled as it was supposed to.
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The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
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I am somewhat influenced by the years that I've spent trying to actually get things done, whether it was reforming education in Arkansas or a survey and Legal Services Corporation board when President Jimmy Carter appointed me and trying to get lawyers for poor people. I have worked in these areas. I know it's more than just a hope. You've got to translate it into a policy that leads to action.
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The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man.
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I probably didn't put forth the effort I should have put forth, didn't realize the value of education until I went to college.
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I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.
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What we suffer from today is an excess of education.
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We say arts education is good for general education, but that's not the point. The arts are what great nations are remembered for. They are a mirror.
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Only one in five children in the U.S. lives within walking distance of a park. Many more lack access to a quality early childhood education that provides ample time and space to play.
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Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.
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The challenge to people like me is, how do you use your capabilities and resources to help support things that are important to you, whether it's the arts or education or homelessness?
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The lack of diversity in higher education is a problem we as a country must tackle if we're going to live up to our promise.
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The cognitive skills prized by the American educational establishment and measured by achievement tests are only part of what is required for success in life. Character skills are equally important determinants of wages, education, health and many other significant aspects of flourishing lives.
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I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.
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The aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions.
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...education is the key to health and to social progress. The fact is that the average expectation of life of an Indian has doubled since Independence. In fact, it is 61 years now as against 28 or 30 years at the time of Independence.
