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We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just 'virtual reality.'
We will never address the race-based, systemic barriers to health care, equal housing and education without investing in underserved communities.
Creativity is especially expressed in the ability to make connections, to make associations, to turn things around and express them in a new way.
We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.
As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated.
I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.
Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up.
University degrees are a bit like adultery: You may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable.
One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a nice day."
There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
I've learned so many things and a lot of things I've learned the hard way. I look at failure as education in that respect I'm very well educated.
If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes.
There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.
I could not undertake to form a nucleus of an institution for the development of infant minds, where none already existed. It would be too cruel.
My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child.
To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is a fact about God, and mathematics is a branch of theology.
The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
I'm opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education, or public health, period.
If we want to invest in the prosperity of our nation, we must invest in the education of our children so that their talents may be fully employed.
Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.
The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation.
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
I'm a gypsy: no education, no schooling, nothing. I don't care what people think of me. I don't care about being a hero, a role model, a champion.
Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.
Teachers do not need to be armed with guns to protect their classes; they need to be armed with a solid education in order to teach their classes.
The economy is the start and end of everything. You can't have successful education reform or any other reform if you don't have a strong economy.
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
I've always tried to be aware of what I say in my films, because all of us who make motion pictures are teachers - teachers with very loud voices.
The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
When the State wishes to endow an academy or university, it grants it a tract of forest land: one saw represents an academy, a gang, a university.
When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.
My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals.
Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.
Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.
From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.
Education keeps the key of life; and liberal education insures the first conditions of freedom,--namely, adequate knowledge and accustomed thought.
Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.