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We do not truly own our thoughts or experiences until we have negotiated them with ourselvesand for this writing is the prime medium.
Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.
The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.
Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans.
The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method.
The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
I take great solace that Einstein failed math. I failed math. I also failed English and home economics. Einstein was an underachiever.
I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.
Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.
In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity.
I taught myself to name my name, To bark back, loosen love and crying; To ease my woman so she came, To ease an old man who was dying.
My kids both had Catholic junior school education, which I'm really glad for - it taught them how to be compassionate, how to be kind.
International Literacy Day is an occasion to celebrate the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies everywhere
The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community.
Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root.
Don't know much about history, don't know much biology, don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took.
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement.
Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.
[on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.
The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.
Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.
Our obsession is how we can use technology to reach our big goals, first peace, which will allow us more equality and better education.
When I was in school, one of my teachers was crazy about me. I once heard her tell another teacher, "I wish he was my kid for one day!"
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves.
... the whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant; and the remainder vain and mean.
You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.
...it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.
There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.
Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.
Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.
Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.
It's... time to introduce scholarship programs that give students a choice, especially those who are locked into low-performing schools.
We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.
It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.
The child should have the advantage of ignorance as well as of knowledge, and is fortunate if he gets his share of neglect and exposure.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
The Nazi period could have happened only in Germany because the German education of obedience to any law and order was the main problem.
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.