Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
Early care and education helps children build the skills they need for success in kindergarten and can help close the achievement gap.
To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education.
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
Conservatism is the perfect antidote to underdevelopment. Its commitment to individual responsibility, education, hard work, personal initiative, traditional family values and free markets is a universal formula for success in a free society.
A one-size-fits-all lecture is not the way to go about education.
For some reason, our culture is one that preaches that furthering your education is something that is always worth the price tag, and the truth is, that simply isn’t the case.
The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.
Even Milton Friedman – doyen of radical free market thought – was willing to consider some government intervention into primary education on the grounds that it is unfair for children to not get a chance in life because they were born to poor parents.
It’s not enough to train today’s workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow’s workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
We cannot create observers by saying ‘observe’, but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
It is better to learn late than never.
Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program.
From exam grading to health education to professional training to democratic participation, paths towards self-realization and success in the world are often daunting and obscure: journeys only the privileged feel confident setting off along.
The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
Gary Cooper was a good friend. He was a great nature lover. He was like an American Indian, he knew every leaf that was turned over. It was an education to go for a walk with him.
Education, hard work, dedication, a support system, and knowing my life had value – these were what had made all the difference.
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.
The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.
There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.
Education is the development of power and ideal.
The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
Scholarships that allow students to get a good education are important, but first we want to measure the progress that the schools are teaching our students, we want to hold them accountable for the progress, we want to hold the schools accountable for teaching the young people in America.
Education is the key. But it’s the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don’t have it.
Our nation’s commitment is to provide a quality education to every child to serve the public common good. Accordingly, we must shift the paradigm to think of education funding as investments made in individual children, not in institutions or buildings.
Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Ordinary men are given the authority of the priesthood. Worthiness and willingness – not experience, expertise, or education – are the qualifications for priesthood ordination.
We believed that there’s no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it’s bad, it’s something else. It was a much, much harder line in the ’50s and ’60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn’t exist – they didn’t have a fine arts program when I was a kid.
Once I got a bit older, and we could see there could be a future in football, it was everyone’s blessing to chase that dream. And it did me a lot of good: It put me through college, it gave me an education, it got me a little taste of pro ball and a lot of good memories. I don’t regret any of it.
My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA.
In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.
My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups – development, testing, marketing, user education.
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
Our mission at Khan Academy is a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere, and college readiness is a crucial part of that. We want to help as many students as possible prepare for college and for life, and since the SAT measures preparedness for college, our partnership with the College Board is a natural fit.
Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.
By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good-paying job.
Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for.
I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.
I believe education should be a right for every child, but tragically in many parts of world it is a privilege for certain children whose parents have money. There are 72 million children in the world who don’t go to school and many of them are in Africa.
The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they’re two different things.
We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
You can accomplish anything, if you are focused and determined, believe in yourself, and get education and certifications that will give you confidence.
Education in Emergencies signifies that the right to education is being threatened by natural causes such as tsunamis, but also, unfortunately, by man-made causes.
Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.
This journey of education and breaking stigma around HIV is something that will have a legacy everlasting.
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
A person’s current personality of love, hatred, jealousy, rage or a murderous intent and so on is formed upon genetic elements, education, the environment and a family a person grows in.
There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests.
Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.
