Words matter. These are the best Educated People Quotes from famous people such as Timothy D. Snyder, Baltasar Kormakur, Terry Teachout, C. S. Lewis, Flea, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
People who lived in the 1920s and ’30s and ’40s were not so different from us. In some ways, they were probably better citizens than we are. They had longer attention spans, for example. Educated people tended to read a bit more than we did.
Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who started raiding when business wasn’t good. That’s why they had such great boats.
Nowadays, most educated people would just as soon stay home and watch ‘Breaking Bad’ as shell out a hundred bucks to see a Broadway play – assuming that there are any plays on Broadway worth seeing, which long ago ceased to be a safe bet.
‘Good English’ is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
The most important thing to me with any politician is that they don’t start wars, but education is a big part of that, too, because educated people are less likely to do stupid, violent things.
An educated people can be easily governed.
But then it hasn’t really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
A high culture is the self-consciousness of a society. It contains the works of art, literature, scholarship and philosophy that establish a shared frame of reference among educated people.
I’ve been blessed because every single role I’ve done has been an educated person. I’ve never done the stereotypical Latina, even though I have an accent – I’ve always been able to play educated people. That’s a good thing!
If you can attract highly educated people from other parts of the country and keep your own best and brightest, chances are the job creators are going to be successful.
If you think of politics as ‘serious people focusing seriously on the most important questions,’ which is the default mode of most educated people and the media (but not the less-educated public which has better instincts), then your model of reality is badly wrong.
I think the press are good people; I think they’re educated people.
I grew up in the suburbs among highly educated people, in a house crammed with books. It was a culture rich in ideas, stimulation, entertainment, and mental activity, all helpful to the nurture of an imaginative child who wanted from an early age to be a writer.
I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Congress of Scientists.
