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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
If you want a good education, go to private schools. If you can't afford it, tough luck. You can go to the public school.
Nothing will divide this nation more than ignorance, and nothing can bring us together better than an educated population.
I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.
But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.
Above all, I believe every child, no matter their ZIP code or their parents' jobs, deserves access to a quality education.
You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand."
The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.
Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .
A Minneapolis, Minnesota high school teacher hung this sign under the clock in her classroom. "Time will pass...Will you?"
Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon.
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
I was raised in a small town. It was so small that our school taught driver's education and sex education in the same car.
The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.
Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.
Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.
We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers.
If you want to get an education in how to get a story and how to survive, then get a street reporter job in New York City.
Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.
As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.
Much knowledge will corrupt the heart,/When partly understood,/And so the people grow too smart,/But neither wise nor good.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
Through my education, I didn't just develop skills, I didn't just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
Modern science is a catalyst agent to fulfil the needs of humankind. We must ensure that it reaches to poorest of the poor.
As technology plays a major role inside and outside the classroom, we want to make sure education innovation is accessible.
The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't.
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.
Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative?
Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.
I have always believed and promoted the fact that education and access to the knowledge society involves lifelong learning.
It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know.
Education should be a right, not a privilege. We need a revolution in the way that the United States funds higher education.
It is better to read a little and thoroughly than cram a crude undigested mass into my head, though it be great in quantity.
Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.
People generally have more feeling for canals and roads than education. However, I hope we can advance them with equal pace.
No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can't we learn from all we've been through after two thousand years?
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.
You got to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, and latch on to the affirmative. Don't mess with Mr. In Between.
The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.
Education is the key solution for change, for peace, and for help in the fight against racism and discrimination in general.
It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.
Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.
I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.