When I was at school you got an overall general education on many things, even just basic facts. — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
Despite the hours spent debating different models of general education, the choices faculties make rarely lead to any significant difference in the… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
Belgium's 1986 team is like the Christmas movie that they bring out every single year. That World Cup is something we get… — Vincent Kompany Copy Share Image
The theory of modern education is that you need a general education before you specialize. And I think to some extent, before… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of education...to raise the lower ranks of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
All this has been very formative in both my research and my teaching, so I value it enormously in my life. It's… — Paul Rozin Copy Share Image
I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in… — George Andrew Olah Copy Share Image
The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Basically, my mother is a piano teacher, and she actually teaches piano at Yamaha School of Music today. She's a really, really… — Eldar Djangirov Copy Share Image
There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the… — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
Getting faculties to come to a consensus about something that they've never really thought about or had to worry about in their… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
America needs the best education system in the world. We have it in higher education. We do not have it in general… — John Glenn Copy Share Image
As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
Therefore, to teach them [women] at least an outline of economics and law is the first requirement after giving them a general… — Fukuzawa Yukichi Copy Share Image
General education is the best preventive of the evils now most dreaded. In the civilized countries of the world, the question is… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
“I was born into a world full of 'specialists'. I'm not sure whether it's the result of our education system or just… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
We are lucky in the United States to have our liberal arts system. In most countries, if you go to university, you… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“Like it or not, philosophy or intellectual activity in ancient China was distinguished from manual labor, and thus philosophical texts were not… — Hans-Georg Moeller Copy Share Image
The more Adams thought about the future of his country, the more convinced he became that it rested on education. Before any… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
In many places it is literally not safe physically for youngsters to go to school. And in many schools, and its becoming… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
The intensity of a national culture should be represented by... the general education level and... the exceptional merit of a small elite… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
Prophetic of infidel times, and indicating the unsoundness of our general education, 'The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation', has started… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
I took art courses, only in the sense that I was able to - I took art classes, which were fun, which… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
Modern man receives a large part of his knowledge and general education by way of pictorial impressions, illustrations, photographs, films. Daily newspapers… — Otto Neurath Copy Share Image
Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
“The general education of the population also gave cause for optimism. In 1900, Germans counted among the most literate people in the… — Helmut Walser Smith Copy Share Image
A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another, and as the mould in… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
My own view is that the general education curriculum that a college picks has to be appropriate for the kind of student… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
The difficulty with coming up with a curriculum is mainly that faculty aren't trained to think in terms of general education. They're… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
I have indeed two great measures at heart, without which no republic can maintain itself in strength: 1. That of general education,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A sharp difference should exist between general education and specialized knowledge. As particularly today the latter threatens more and more to sink… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I think at a place like Harvard, our experience, I was involved with, at various stages, in trying to implement a new… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
But before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of Education and knowledge must become… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Why has the medical profession not taken advantage of the help available from evolutionary biology, a well-developed branch of science with great… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
So outside agriculture, in manufacturing and services, we must create a lot more jobs. But that also means that we must ensure… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
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