Education Quotes · Page 826

Despite this lamentable lack of balance in our education I do not believe that either children or adults in my country are…

— Douglas Hurd

“Educational system in America is not as good as in China. You may be an idiot. It is hard to tell with…

— Kate Danley

If somebody is deemed more talented within the confines of the school it doesn't mean they're going to have the most successful…

— Gillian Jacobs

I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.

— Greg Mortenson

The Buddha shared his teachings so that everyone, without exception, could reach the same supreme state of liberation that he had attained…

— Shinjo Ito

The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university.…

— Herbert Hoover

When women are paid for their work and have control over how the money gets spent, they invest much more of their…

— Arancha Gonzalez

My parents' greatest wish was that I graduated from college. Neither of my parents had a college education, and they really wanted…

— Linda McMahon

We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kinds of powers in this world. One child is given…

— Susan Cain

“You told me once that a soul isn't something a person is born with but something that must be built, by effort…

— Chad Harbach

Our school, the 'gold school,' we continue to work even past the so-called prime. Everybody continues to work and it's like playing…

— B-Real

Psychologists would say that the only two important forms of social learning are imitation and teaching, and they will spend time trying…

— Hal Whitehead

Indeed, the share of teachers in a union has fallen to less than half, driven in part by older, unionized teachers retiring,…

— Annie Lowrey

I think the one worthy cause I can identify myself with is valuing education. Because I believe education is something that cannot…

— Shamcey Supsup

Each year when the A-level results come out, thousands of students and their families settle down to deal with the implications -…

— David Olusoga

The interesting thing now for No Child Left Behind is that there are very few advocates for it; there is no constituency…

— Bob Schaffer

True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius.

— Felix Schelling

When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.

— Anonymous

Knowing what to expect from a teacher is a really good thing, of course: It lets you get the right answers more…

— Alison Gopnik

As the son of a union activist and a lifelong Democrat, I've always thought that privatizing our public schools is not the…

— Eli Broad

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in…

— Mary Augusta Ward

I always want to go forward, and I want to break my limits and I want to live in the now. And…

— Liu Yifei

“I still had a lot to learn, and I’d have to learn it the same place everyone learns to be an astronaut:…

— Chris Hadfield

“The college allows students of different races to date now, but the place is permeated with an air of cheerful fascism.”

— Aaron Hartzler

In the zone of perdition where my youth went as if to complete its education, one would have said that the portents…

— Guy Debord

Expert tutors often do not help very much. They hang back letting the student manage as much as possible. And when things…

— Mark Lepper

There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about,…

— Steven Soderbergh

Australia must prioritise education spending. It is not a question of whether or not we have the money, it is a question…

— Bob Brown

“Yet, during these broken and irregular periods, he had developed one of the most valuable assets any man can have, even from…

— Dale Carnegie

In my opinion, the teaching, rearing, and training of children requires more intelligence, intuitive understanding, humility, strength, wisdom, spirituality, perseverance, and hard…

— James E. Faust

There were times in school where I would say, 'I should go to class.' But I could make $100 playing online poker…

— James Holzhauer

I'm pretty much self-taught - I never went to any courses. If I want to learn about, say, the frontal lobe, I'll…

— Keith Barry

I started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then I have been very involved in the…

— Shakira

People always ask me, how do you teach core values? The answer is, you don't. The goal is not to get people…

— Robert Spector

“You've got to check your ego at the door, and change your goal from having the right answer to learning everything you…

— Shilpi Somaya Gowda

Our whole educational problem suffers from a one-sided approach to the child who is to be educated, and from an equally one-sided…

— Carl Jung

I'm not really worried about people's perception of what I do, or people's analysis of why I make the decisions I make.…

— David Gordon Green

Even when I was studying piano, I always preferred to play around with my own improvisations rather than do my studies. So…

— Johann Johannsson

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more…

— Anonymous