Education Quote by Dick Durbin Download Open image “I urge the Department of Education not to settle for half-measures when it comes to students.” — Dick Durbin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Education Settle Students Urge
I do not want any policy to be formulated that impedes the spread of education in any fashion. — Smriti Irani Copy Share Image
Our whole educational problem suffers from a one-sided approach to the child who is to be educated, and from an equally one-sided lack of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Education is supposed to be our great equalizer, but when only half of low-income students are enrolling in college and only three tenths are… — Chris Meledandri Copy Share Image
But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none… — Roy Barnes Copy Share Image
I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their students and… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
We are creating a one size fits all system that needlessly brands many young people as failures, when they might thrive if offered a… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Together, we can ensure that when our kids go to school they're doing less testing and more learning. — Josh Shapiro Copy Share Image
“School is not a brand holding a monopoly on learning, and we need to stop feeding it as such. It’s time to open our eyes and see that there are valid alternatives to the faulty wiring of compulsory schooling and corporatized testing. And they’re right there in front of us on the educational shelf. In fact, they have been for… — Ellen Rowland Copy Share
Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Students do not need to be labeled or measured any more than they are. They don't need more Federal funds, grants, and gimmicks. What… — Marva Collins Copy Share Image
I don't think we expect enough of students. They just need someone to show them the way. — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image
We believe that there are aspects of border security that Democrats and Republicans can agree on. — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
When you're talking about long-term deficit reduction, $4 trillion worth, entitlement reform needs to be part of it. — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
As a government lawyer, Samuel Alito wrote that he personally believe very strongly the Constitution does not protect the right to an abortion. — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
We've had enough with the gun traffickers and straw purchasers who buy guns out of state and sell them out of the trunks of… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
Having billions of dollars immediately available to plug budget holes without raising taxes is very appealing. And to the delight of Wall Street investors,… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
It is a challenge to all of us, and it's a challenge we need to meet, to make sure the Quincy Veterans' Home is,… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
Reducing and removing greenhouse gas emissions spares our planet from the well-documented degradation that we are witnessing on a global basis. — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
It is tough to run for public office and face an opponent, to decide on issues what is the best thing, then face the… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
We ought to deal with Social Security in a separate conversation that is not part of deficit reduction. — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
I have thought about this issue of abortion time and again. It is not an easy issue for most people. I came to believe… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
“In school you are taught to obey and not to think straight for your own good. Otherwise the world would be full of millionaires… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will… — Ioannes Amos Commenius Copy Share Image
“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by” — H.D. (Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image