The strength of the scientific establishment in any country is related to its general level of education, not only in supplying large numbers of eager minds for further training, but also in ensuring a public opinion that holds science in esteem and approves financial support.
In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you’re going to be 20 years from now is how well you’re doing in your education system.
In my day we didn’t have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.
I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.
You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.
I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I’m seeing how knowledge can elevate you.
I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Responsibility educates.
The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men.
If you care about potholes, you have to vote. If you care about pre-k education, you have to vote. If you care about women’s health care, you have to vote.
Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.
If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it’s not religion, but you can train through education.
Global poverty is a complex web of interlinked problems. There is no one ‘silver bullet’ that will solve global inequality. Multiple contributing factors must be tackled in parallel. Yes, education alone is unlikely to lead to employment without economic reform to address the demand side in much of the developing world.
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
I frequently meet ex-pupils who seem to think I didn’t totally ruin their educations, so that’s something.
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
I was a Senate spouse for many, many years. I kept my own career. I was teaching and Joe was doing politics. I realized when we were elected vice president that I had a platform and I knew I was not going to waste my platform. It was going to focus women and girls’ education.
I’ve known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that’s so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn’t you take university courses throughout your entire life?
The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.
The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.
The most valuable investment we can make is in our children’s education. When we make education a priority, we give our children opportunity. Opportunity to learn at higher levels than their parents were able to learn; to earn at higher levels than we were able to earn.
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
Essentially, social education is moral education, and moral education is preparation for citizenship… When Jefferson and others advocated public education, it was to prepare for citizenship in a new, constitutional, democratic society.
As a parent, a scientist, and educator, what I know is that it’s always better to provide the education that will help keep my children – all people – safe, even if I don’t want them to engage in the behavior.
Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.
Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‘studies’ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‘studies’ are about propaganda rather than serious education.
In the musician, there is a tendency to have a narrowness. It’s all compartmentalized. I am playing the violin; that’s all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.
For me, education was power.
You can’t build a revolution with no education. Jomo Kenyatta did this in Africa, and because the people were not educated, he became as much an oppressor as the people he overthrew.
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
‘Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.
As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.
Education is important because it prepares you for life.
I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education – that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.
In a world that places a growing premium on social skills, education systems need to do much better at fostering those skills systematically across the school curriculum.
The support of my mother has made such a difference in my life, sacrificing everything to make sure that we went to school, did our homework, got an education. That was one person supporting me, and it takes more than one person in our community to help raise our children.
As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.
In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.
Education is neither eastern nor western.
I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.
A good education is another name for happiness.
I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew. To say you’ve got to inquire, you’ve got to be testing your knowledge all the time in order to be more effective in what you’re doing.
Learn to think continentally.
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.
We know from scientific studies that infants as young as six months old can distinguish right from wrong and have a preference for the good over the bad. I think it’s important to design our education and our schools around that insight, to bring out the best in our kids.
Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.
What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express the emotions in beauty and the mind with accuracy and strength.
You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life.
Our solution on ‘The Simpsons’ is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some frame of reference, can get. And for the ones who don’t, it doesn’t matter, because we have Homer banging his head and saying, ‘D’oh!’
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
For me, revolution is around young people with no skills, college education, and coming from everywhere having an economic impact on an entire system which no one notices.
The best education I have ever received was through travel.
Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
Your library is your paradise.
