General Education Quotes

17 quotes by 17 authors

When I was at school you got an overall general education on many things, even just basic facts. — Jo Brand
It is, however, a most astonishing but incontestable fact, that the history of the evolution of man as yet constitutes no part of general education.… — Ernst Haeckel
I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose… — George Andrew Olah
Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will become… — Rudolf Arnheim
Modern man receives a large part of his knowledge and general education by way of pictorial impressions, illustrations, photographs, films. Daily newspapers bring more pictures… — Otto Neurath
All this has been very formative in both my research and my teaching, so I value it enormously in my life. It's why I'm a… — Paul Rozin
The more Adams thought about the future of his country, the more convinced he became that it rested on education. Before any great things are… — David McCullough
The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition… — Henry James
For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's… — Lafcadio Hearn
There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the general education in… — Leroy Chiao
Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all… — Napoleon Bonaparte
The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me… — Orson Scott Card
I have indeed two great measures at heart, without which no republic can maintain itself in strength: 1. That of general education, to enable every… — Thomas Jefferson
Despite the hours spent debating different models of general education, the choices faculties make rarely lead to any significant difference in the cognitive development of… — Derek Bok
As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds,… — Dee Dee Myers
In many places it is literally not safe physically for youngsters to go to school. And in many schools, and its becoming almost generally true,… — Boyd K. Packer
In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we… — Stephen Covey

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