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Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and all the rubbish good sense.
You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all.
We have got to make sure that every qualified American in this country who wants to go to college can go to college -- regardless of income.
Doors will slam in your face. You must pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and knock again; it's the only way to achieve your goals in life.
The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.
When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.
On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking space.
In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
A 5 yr. old's definition of nursery school: "A place where they teach children who hit, not to hit, and children who don't hit, to hit back."
Creative activity is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain protests, but an orchestration of ... joyful doing.
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.
Learning from experience and learning from education, both are important. Your education & values decide how you learn from your experiences.
Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in turn rely on the education of our people.
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
You can be someone running...who is just a soaring leader of people. But if you don't have the finances down, you're going to have a problem.
When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap.
They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. They are not the same thing.
I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.
A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered fora head cold.
I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.
In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.
The demographic of young people... in each hand is a phone, more powerful than a computer. It's a doorway to the digital nation, to education.
True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius.
You could do anything in your room at college. You could smoke pot, live in a coed dorm, have a girl. But you couldn't have a . . . hot plate!
Research must continue to be the centerpiece of intellectual life, and our commitment to research must grow, because our problems are growing.
Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.
Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.
An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.
I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.
It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's; remedial readin', remedial 'ritin' and remedial 'rithmetic.
When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools.
The 21st century is the century of knowledge. Knowledge, science and education will have the power and strength to embrace the entire universe.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree... Bad English will slam doors you don't even know exist.
Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.
College costs continue to rise, and student loan debt threatens to price many Americans out of a college education and out of the middle class.
See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning.
If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.
Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.
Education is no longer thought of as a preparation for adult life, but as a continuing process of growth and development from birth until death.
That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with a book in your hands.
In addition to our existing programs, I will recommend a new program for schools and students with a first-year authorization of $1,500 million.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Leave the dude alone and he'll figure it out.
School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.
Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.
Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning.