The mark of higher education isn’t the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It’s the skills you gain about how to learn.
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
I saw this new thing called television, and I saw people throwing pies in each other’s faces, and I thought, ‘This could be a wonderful tool for education! Why is it being used this way?’ So I said to my parents, ‘You know, I don’t think I’ll go into seminary right away. I think I’ll go into television.’
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.
The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval. If they fail once, twice, or thrice, censure not.
Whatever your political leaning, vote. This participation is vital. I feel the same way about issues like the space program, education, the military. The more the public focuses on these things, thinks and forms opinions, I think the better we are as a democracy.
The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.
I’ve become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays because I use every chance I get to ask faculty and administrators of management education programs why we don’t offer at least one course – not even required, just an elective – on the world’s religions.
It is always in season for old men to learn.
During that year at Harvard learning with Carl Steinitz, I had the feeling that I was drinking knowledge out of a fire hose. I learned more in that year than I had learned in the previous ten years of my education.
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.
The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.
I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
I believe strongly in the power of arts education to engage and empower young people.
My mom and dad, although they may not have had a lot of formal education, they were two of the most brilliant people that I know.
All of the things an arts education gives a young person enhance leadership skills and help raise grades.
When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body – it’s a blessing.
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.
I don’t think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.
Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.
You can’t have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they’re not going to hear them in America. I believe it’s part of their education.
I want education for the sons and the daughters of all the extremists, especially the Taliban.
Research shows that when women are empowered as political leaders, countries often experience higher standards of living with positive developments in education, infrastructure, and health care.
There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families’ and the country’s economic development. A girl’s lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.
The test and the use of man’s education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.
The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed the way schools function in nearly every capacity, and I am proud of the way Connecticut’s education officials, teachers, and staff have been able to respond in order to ensure that students continue to receive a quality education.
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese government to aggressively pursue digital education.
With the education I had, all I could do was work as a burro, in whatever I could find: shoeshine boy, janitor, dishwasher, waiter, bartender, cashier, bricklayer, painter.
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious – just dead wrong.
For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don’t make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you’re told you’re too tall or you’re too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You’re rejected for your education, you’re rejected for this or that and it’s really tough.
Apart from education, you need good health, and for that, you need to play sports.
In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It’s their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education… it’s like a precious gift. It’s like a diamond.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.
Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents.
To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
Ensuring that we help prepare all kids for life, college, and work in our knowledge-based economy will require a collaborative, sustained effort from all stakeholders – from the president and the secretary of education on down to states, school districts, principals, teachers, parents, and community members.
Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand.
Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.
As a product of education, I have always believed in the power of education as the most powerful, high-impact catalyst for transformation. Look at the impact that the Indian Institutes of Technology have had globally.
