Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education. ~By Paul Erdos ~
I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge. ~By William Glasser ~
It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body. ~By Thomas Huxley ~
True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living. ~By Bryant H. McGill ~
The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions. ~By James Welch ~
One of the unfortunate things about our education system is that we do not teach students how to avail themselves of their subconscious capabilities. ~By Bill Lear ~
THE rich possess ample means to realize any theory they may chuse to adopt in the education of their children, regardless of the cost; but it is not so with him whose Subsistence is derived from industry. ~By Joseph Lancaster ~
Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do. ~By Alexis Herman ~
The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience. ~By John S. Dickey ~
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. ~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve. ~By William Glasser ~
The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife. ~By Mary Wortley Montagu ~
Increased awareness and education could be a great help toward improving spending and saving habits and increasing participation and contribution levels to retirement plans. ~By Ron Lewis ~
Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation. ~By Ernie Fletcher ~
We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place. ~By Earl Warren ~
Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas. ~By Bennie Thompson ~
I studied secondary education. ~By Jim McKay ~
That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint shall be satisfactory to the advisory board. ~By Charles Tupper ~
Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses. ~By Ric Keller ~
They say I do not have the qualifications to be president, that I do not have education. Well, I would never divide the Liberian people. ~By George Weah ~
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. ~By Oscar Wilde ~
For good nurture and education implant good constitutions. ~By Plato ~
As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking. ~By William Godwin ~
Education is the cornerstone of our communities and our country. ~By Bill Frist ~
We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens. ~By Sandra Day O'Connor ~
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. ~By John W. Gardner ~
This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible. ~By Carter G. Woodson ~
A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty. ~By Lane Evans ~
Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny. ~By Charles Barkley ~
My capital budget maintains my commitment to the education of children, health of the Chesapeake Bay, and safety of all Maryland citizens. We will continue to focus on the five pillars of my Administration as we build today and look forward to the projects of the future. ~By Robert. L. Ehrlich ~
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. ~By James A. Garfield ~
The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education. ~By Barnaby C. Keeney ~
Life isn't all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education. ~By Thomas Hughes ~
My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education. ~By Ronnie James Dio ~
My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment. ~By Twyla Tharp ~
Public education is an investment in our future. ~By Matt Blunt ~
To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education. ~By John Buchan ~
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. ~By Kofi Annan ~
In the course of her education she had gone through the history usually put into the hands of young people... now her ripened reason gave to her present study at least the advantage of novelty. ~By Charlotte Smith ~
You mustn't forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had. ~By Isaac Rosenberg ~
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education. ~By Zhuang Zi ~
The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation. ~By Avery Brundage ~
Few things are as essential as education. ~By Walter Annenberg ~
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. ~By Bertrand Russell ~
My family gave me the best in education. ~By William Standish Knowles ~
As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible - my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on. ~By Anna Friel ~
A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state. ~By Isabel Paterson ~
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. ~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. ~By B. F. Skinner ~
Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent. ~By Lucretia Mott ~
My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life, you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you're a kid, you can learn a language much more easily; I learned English in less than a year. ~By Mila Kunis ~
Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics. ~By Lynn Swann ~
Too much of what is called "education" is little more than an expensive isolation from reality. ~By Thomas Sowell ~
I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever. ~By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ~
Looking ahead, I can see more and more instances where I will disagree with the president on very fundamental issues. The largest, for me, is education. ~By Jim Jeffords ~
I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory. ~By Alan Parsons ~
In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective. ~By Stanley Fish ~
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. ~By Brooks Atkinson ~
In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it. ~By Piers Anthony ~
Under the CARE bill, personnel performing radiologic procedures in every state would be required to meet minimum educational and credentialing standards. Each state would then be responsible for regulating radiologic technologists according to those standards. ~By Charles W. Pickering ~
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life. ~By Brigham Young ~
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. ~By Alexander Pope ~
Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers. ~By Christine Gregoire ~
I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education. ~By Clyde Tombaugh ~
The education, the cultural awareness, is different in Europe, especially in France, from that in the United States. So I think the public will be much more appreciative of many images. ~By Herb Ritts ~
I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored people of the South stand most in need of, is elementary and industrial. They should be instructed for the work to be done. ~By Timothy Thomas Fortune ~
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. ~By Maria Montessori ~
It is very important that our young people have constructive early work experiences. But it is equally important that their jobs are safe and complement their education, rather than complete it. ~By Alexis Herman ~
I'm committed to universal health coverage and education. ~By Carol Moseley Braun ~
And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays. ~By Mark Rylance ~
I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools. ~By Philip Pullman ~
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. ~By Charles R. Swindoll ~
The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education. ~By Bill Richardson ~
In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education. ~By James Payn ~
I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit. ~By Ron Silver ~
The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade. ~By David E. Price ~
From education by the Church to education by Germanic value is a step of several generations. ~By Alfred Rosenberg ~
Education is the art of making man ethical. ~By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ~
Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day. ~By Armstrong Williams ~
My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18 that was an early equivalent of educational television, a Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show. ~By John Sebastian ~
African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college. ~By Chaka Fattah ~
Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education. ~By Robert Charles Winthrop ~
Five years ago, Samira did not want to continue in the regular school system in Iran. To help her with her education, I set up a home school. It wasn't just for my family, it was open to other friends. ~By Mohsen Makhmalbaf ~
I believe in education and wish I had a better one. ~By Loretta Lynn ~
As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power. ~By Douglas Hyde ~
With regard to the youth vote we should encourage them to partake in the process, making more use of our education system to show the role Government plays in their lives, but also utilise the youth media they relate to to better connect them to our message. ~By Adam Rickitt ~
Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it. ~By Stephen Vizinczey ~
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying. ~By Gustave Flaubert ~
There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life. ~By Salma Hayek ~
Education: A debt due from present to future generations. ~By George Peabody ~
Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original. ~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous. ~By Thomas Bulfinch ~
I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning. ~By Arthur Hailey ~
Nature has always had more force than education. ~By Voltaire ~
I've always wanted to get an education, and tonight's as good a time as any. ~By Burt Lancaster ~
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom. ~By George Washington Carver ~
Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day. ~By Roland Joffe ~
Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing. ~By Michael N. Castle ~
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. ~By Sam Houston ~
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. ~By George Bernard Shaw ~
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