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it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy.
I do not much believe in education. Each person ought to be his or her own model, however frightful that may be.
Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives.
The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State.
Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons
And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
Income inequality has made having kids, much like getting a quality college education, a rich person's privilege.
Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.
Teach them about anger, the sin that comes with dawning. Teach them about flowers, and the beauty of forgiveness.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
True education is awakening a love for truth...opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life.
Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics.
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.
He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
What a misfortune it is that we should thus be compelled to let our boys schooling interfere with their education!
For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.
There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster.
Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
Our lives are changing, this old world keeps turning. And I sit here and wonder, baby, what we're really learning.
One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.
You gave us power in our words, so I think before I speak, and that way when I speak, they know I'm here to teach.
I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.
Getting the degree meant more to me than an NCAA title, being named All-American or winning an Olympic gold medal.
The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.
Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.
Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order
The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.
The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.
Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.
Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.
Your mind is a your temple, keep it beautiful and free. Don't let an egg get laid in it by something you can't see.
The antidote to white fragility is ongoing and lifelong and includes sustained engagement, humility, and education.
An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.
When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.
It's not just about facts, information and technical know how... Gardens are about time, observation and intuition.
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
The language of gardening fuels the senses: talk with your hands, observe with your ears and listen with your eyes.
The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
Get out of bed, go to school, stick at school. Make it happen for yourself because those opportunities are waiting.