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Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be.
That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will.
Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.
Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.
When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
There's no magic bullet to end poverty in the world. But if you could, the closest thing to it would be basic primary education.
A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings.
Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.
Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.
The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.
Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.
Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.
Oh, children, growing up to be Adventurers into sophistry, Forbear, forbear to be of those That read the rood to learn the rose.
Recent decades clearly demonstrate that the more secular our Public Schools become the less successful they become academically.
Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.
Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education.
A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.
Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.
As I watched my grandfather work with people who were impoverished, I began to understand that to be truly human, one must serve.
In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but find it out.
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
They like to take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in, sing Amazing Grace all the way to the Swiss banks.
The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated.
To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.
Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.
Education is not complete unless we teach our children not only how to read and write but the difference between right and wrong.
Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities.
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.
We measure success and depth by length of time, but it is possible to have a deep relationship that doesn't always stay the same.
Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.
Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education.
Every parent wants to do what's best for their child. Whatever I can afford, I'm going to get my kid the best education I can get.
Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic, rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.
Education, when delivered properly, can benefit a lot of people and make productive citizens out of those otherwise given no hope.
When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.
Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.
Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.