Famous Quotes About - education

  • A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated. ... Horace Mann {view}
  • A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching. ... A. Bartlett Giamatti {view}
  • America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few. ... Will Rogers {view}
  • America is the best half-educated country in the world. ... Nicholas M. Butler {view}
  • An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style. ... Alan K. Simpson {view}
  • An educated people can be easily governed. ... Frederick The Great {view}
  • An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. ... Russell Baker {view}
  • An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. ... Anatole France {view}
  • Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom. ... Clifford Stoll {view}
  • Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. ... Anthony J. D'Angelo {view}
  • Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. ... Edward Everett {view}
  • Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ... Will Durant {view}
  • Education is all a matter of building bridges. ... Ralph Ellison {view}
  • Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. ... Oscar Wilde {view}
  • Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. ... Daniel J. Boorstin {view}
  • Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. ... William Butler Yeats {view}
  • Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. ... Gilbert K. Chesterton {view}
  • Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ... Robert Frost {view}
  • Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom. ... George Washington Carver {view}
  • Education is the transmission of civilization. ... Will Durant {view}
  • Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. ... B. F. Skinner {view}
  • Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. ... Ambrose Bierce {view}
  • Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ... G. M. Trevelyan {view}
  • Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. ... Malcolm Forbes {view}
  • Every educated person is a future enemy. ... Martin Bormann {view}
  • Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. ... Gail Godwin {view}
  • He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ... Victor Hugo {view}
  • I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool. ... Leon Spinks {view}
  • I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world. ... Al Green {view}
  • I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. ... Michel de Montaigne {view}
  • I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. ... Tallulah Bankhead {view}
  • I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated. ... Al McGuire {view}
  • I would like to learn, or remember, how to live. ... Annie Dillard {view}
  • I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained. ... Walt Disney {view}
  • If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse. ... Abu Bakr {view}
  • If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else. ... Cornelius Vanderbilt {view}
  • If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world. ... Heinrich Heine {view}
  • In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated. ... Walter Annenberg {view}
  • It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual. ... Allen Klein {view}
  • It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. ... Robert Green Ingersoll {view}
  • It is always in season for old men to learn. ... Aeschylus {view}
  • It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ... Aristotle {view}
  • Learn to think continentally. ... Alexander Hamilton {view}
  • Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn. ... Alice Miller {view}
  • Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence. ... Abigail Adams {view}
  • Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. ... Ambrose Bierce {view}
  • Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. ... John W. Gardner {view}
  • No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. ... Gilbert K. Chesterton {view}
  • No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. ... Emma Goldman {view}
  • Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy. ... Brad Henry {view}
  • Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. ... Ezra Pound {view}
  • So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it. ... Judy Chicago {view}
  • Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle. ... Robert Anthony {view}
  • Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. ... Alexander Pope {view}
  • The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. ... George Santayana {view}
  • The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world. ... Morris Dees {view}
  • This was not a turkey. Our College of Education has nearly 500 students, and our fall applications are up 50 percent. Summer enrollment is up 62 percent. ... We have really worked hard and we are graduating people. We are not losing people. ... Carl Kuttler {view}
  • We need to educate boaters in waters that are shallow to watch for the signs. There are very few navigational aids in areas like that. ... David Ray {view}
  • Carlos Beltran got a good education last year. I think he's going to have a big year for us. I really do. ... Willie Randolph {view}
  • Both Vocational Education and Earn-a-Bike have a priority of developing individual skills, yet they do need to work in a team context to function well. ... Carl Kurz {view}
  • The girls from Tanzania were all between 17 and 25, they had little or no education. At the orphanage they would learn how to feed and clean the children and put them to bed. If a kid said his stomach hurt, one of the girls might hit them. ... Bess Brooks {view}
  • Employers tend to find foreign educated, Mandarin speaking graduates attractive, ... David Arkless {view}
  • What's most tragic is that this denial of basic education leads to over 1 million unnecessary child and maternal deaths a year. Moreover, children who have never seen the inside of a classroom are precisely those that face the most acute poverty, and should be the prime target of the international community if it is at all serious about realizing the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals of halving extreme poverty by 2015. ... David Archer {view}
  • The copyright law allows us as students and educators some wiggle room for scholarly use. ... Carl Johnson {view}
  • Later marriage is very strongly associated with higher levels of education. That's why people in the Northeast have such a late age of marriage. ... David Popenoe {view}
  • They're good. The choir offers children a sound chorale education. ... David Stevens {view}
  • One of the main things they bring is a lot of experience with different approaches to issues in higher education. ... Ira Simet {view}
  • Because music is not a tested area, often (districts) will take time from music education to focus on math and reading. It is happening in a lot of places. ... David Circle {view}
  • FOUR OUT OF TEN CHILDREN ARE WITHOUT A SECONDARY LEVEL OF EDUCATION So many children are leaving school so early. What is happening to these children? Many become manual workers who are exploited and taken for granted. They are employed month by month, year by year, with no job security, no leave, and no benefits. ... Joseph Muscat {view}
  • Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. ... Thomas Jefferson {view}
  • That puts tremendous pressure on principals to do exactly what the Secretary of Education tells them to do instead of letting the local boards and the state be in control of education and curriculum. We're using the resolution to oppose further encroachment into local control of education. ... David Cox {view}
  • It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour. ... Vartan Gregorian {view}
  • The Partnership for Higher Education in Africa represents our commitment to Africa's next generation of leaders, who deserve an exemplary education to prepare them to help set the course for their nations' futures. We expect the universities in which we invest to become the foundation of a higher education network that will serve all of Africa for decades to come. ... Vartan Gregorian {view}
  • Some areas that spring to mind are agriculture, democracy building, disaster relief, education, and science and technology. ... Richard Boucher {view}
  • Yes, the show is educational. Yes, the show has cultural significance. But beyond all that, the show is a lot of fun. The music is infectious. It gets in your bones. It makes you want to dance. ... Vince Paul {view}
  • It's going to be a strong fight. It's going to be based on issues, education, health care, working families. ... Harold Ickes {view}
  • We want to protect their education from being interrupted because of those moves. ... Steve Weil {view}
  • I believe California should provide free community college for every student who commits to completing a two-year education. Students would have six years to complete one of these programs. ... Steve Westly {view}
  • To use a Texas expression, President Bush is all hat and no cattle when it comes to education. ... Howard Dean {view}
  • It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled ... James Russell Lowell {view}
  • The numbers represent to me [that] still in the inner city there's a lack of resources and education. It's as if nobody cares. ... Harry Terrell {view}
  • It's against a system that funds education the way we are funding it now. This really is for boys and girls. ... Steve Brace {view}
  • The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight. ... Harold Rosenberg {view}
  • He?s been one of the best ideas the education department has had in a long time. He?s very bright. ... Jerry Bailey {view}
  • The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so. ... Harriet Martineau {view}
  • How can you learn to make money from a person who has no money. ... Kishan S Chauhan {view}
  • If the best things in life are free than why is education so expensive, including all forms of energy that's a necessity to survive. There has to be a much more feasible way. ... Sean Shareef-Crosby {view}
  • The American educational system keeps churning out as many irresponsible political leaders as in the financial arena. ... Muhammed Haider {view}
  • Living with dignity should be taught from kindergarten till death if only there was so much education, such desire to be corrected... ... Mariana Fulger {view}
  • What doesnt kill us may make us stronger but what we grow up believing we have to change can sure keep us from learning anything. ... Dee Shihady {view}
  • Straight Americans need ... an education of the heart and soul. They must understand, to begin with, how it can feel to spend years denying your own deepest truths, to sit silently through classes, meals, and church services while people you love toss off remarks that brutalize your soul. ... Bruce Bawer {view}
  • These are good schools, you can get a good education here. ... Ann Marshall {view}
  • ...what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow. ... Norton Juster (Phantom Tollbooth) {view}
  • Where education is lacking, there is savagery, there is a lot of naivety. ... Mariana Fulger {view}
  • With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing. ... Criss Jami {view}
  • Human capital analysis starts with the assumption that individuals decide on their education, training, medical care, and other additions to knowledge and health by weighing the benefits and costs. Benefits include cultural and other non-monetary gains along with improvement in earnings and occupations, while costs usually depend mainly on the foregone value of the time spent on these investments. ... Gary Becker {view}
  • I've been so tied to education and (have so) dedicated myself to it for 43 years that I want to get out and enjoy it now. ... Gaylen Freeman {view}
  • As principals, we often share the belief with parents that education for their children is a journey and not a race. I am very proud of all those former students who have become successful or happy with their lives. ... Gary Busby {view}
  • One of our missions was to diversify Waldorf education. Part of our aim was to come to communities without many innovative options. ... Seth Truby {view}
  • We represent the taxpayer and they don't want the school to change. Yet everything is increasing, including education. Well, taxes also need to be increased ... I think you need to form a referendum committee right away to begin gauging feelings about this. ... Gene Duffy {view}
  • Had your father spend more of your mother's immoral earnings on your education you would not even then have been a gentleman. ... Seymour Hicks {view}
  • Fast Food Nation' can be taught in a lot of ways. It looks at international business concerns, nutrition, marketing, education. It even worked for our department, because we examined it as rhetoric, how effectively he presents his arguments. ... Sarah Liggett {view}
  • At present we have 23 children getting education here. We provide them all the facilities as few of them have lost their parent in riots and those who are alive are very poor. ... Shabnam Hashmi {view}
  • Education is a catch phrase for what we need. ... Gene McCombs {view}
  • I think it's gonna be a great group once they get it started. It's a great opportunity for education both within the group and beyond. ... Gary Gottlieb {view}
  • There's a real need for this here, ... Hopefully, we can send out people with the right tools in education to deal with the problems they find. ... Gerald Turner {view}
  • It's kind of scary. If someone who has an eighth-grade education can walk in and be a counselor, how in the world is Washington protecting the public? ... David Kaplan {view}
  • Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system. ... Sidney Hook {view}
  • I said I _liked_ being half-educated; you were so much more _surprised_at everything when you were ignorant. ... Gerald Durrell {view}
  • We want fewer 'Washington knows best' solutions and more people at the local level making education decisions for America's children, ... Spencer Abraham {view}
  • They are very, very concerned about their child's education and don't want language to be a barrier. ... David Johnston {view}
  • Nyack College is an educational institute committed to training its students to serve both the church and the world. The chairman of the board has told the employees that a new president must embrace those core values and continue on the path that Dr. Schroeder has set us on. ... David Jennings {view}
  • When it comes to educating our children, bigger is not better. I don't think we need an Omaha takeover of the suburban school districts. ... Dave Heineman {view}
  • When I was young, a girl didn't get the same education as her brothers. My brother was trained to take over the family business and I was to marry and look after a husband. ... Carme Ruscalleda {view}
  • I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs. ... Dave Heineman {view}
  • As it is now, I don't think 'American Idol' has been an inspiration for music education beyond singing in the shower. If they [Fox and Idol producers] were smart, they would figure out a way to associate themselves with a great music-based charity. ... Morris Reid {view}
  • We're all finding that education is key to economic development. That's what we've been saying all along. ... Susan Foy {view}
  • Especially in our area, (the issues are) property rights, education and economic growth, particularly through enhancements for small business. Everybody wants to pursue and live the American dream, which is to have something of their own, to own something whether it be a home or other type property, or a business, or something. I want to make sure we continue giving opportunities to small business owners. In addition, people like to know what they have is safeguarded and isn't going to be taken away. ... R. Shawn McGrew {view}
  • Number one, the best anti-poverty program is a job, ... And second, it is education. We are closing the achievement gap between black, Hispanic and white children. ... Trent Duffy {view}
  • There is only one thing that can kill the movies, and that is education. . . . Some say, what is the salvation of the movies? I say, run 'em backward. It can't hurt 'em and it's worth a trial. ... Will Rogers {view}
  • The academies offer an excellent opportunity for those willing to rise to the challenges and rigors of a military education. ... Henry Brown {view}
  • Don't let your studies interfere with your education. ... Henry Rutgers {view}
  • When you compare our endowment to the benchmarks set by the Council on Postsecondary Education, we are low. ... Susan Krauss {view}
  • If one studies too zealously, one easily loses his pants. ... Albert Einstein {view}
  • In the end, it was about educating the public, ... David Kessler {view}
  • We have to promote communities and educate communities on the importance of working together. ... Carmella Mantello {view}
  • They have money, education and are fixated upon copying their ?betters' ? those of the nobility. ... Lynne Burroughs {view}
  • The perception is that religious education is just for children, but that's not the case. It would be unfair to leave the adults out. It's for the whole family, the community. We're always encouraged to have everyone join in and grow in their faith. ... Gladys Pozza {view}
  • What is UVSC's role in the Utah system of higher education in general and, more specifically, to the local community? ... David Keller {view}
  • Adolescents need more support! We have long supported early childhood literacy learning and education needs, and have created a substantial body of research and resources to support early childhood education. It is time we respond to the needs of adolescents in the same way. ... Carmelita K. Williams {view}
  • I'm getting some education here and good coaching. I'm around some good athletes. ... Andre Hall {view}
  • People believed in my message about education and my commitment to family values. ... Alex Castano {view}
  • As a consequence, they do not harm wages in law, education and the social sciences, where most native-born Americans thrive. Foreign-born engineers and scientists have particularly been interested in working in the U.S. In contrast, U.S.-born employees with doctorates are more likely to specialize in law, education and the social sciences. ... Giovanni Peri {view}
  • You'd don't get appointed head of the State Board of Education as an 'outsider' to the system. He's been at the Republican trough for a very, very long time. ... Roger Germann {view}
  • It's not about focusing on social skills instead of education, instead it's about focusing on the whole child. ... talk2yourbaby {view}
  • Nurturing Nature is about taking something that we all have (a brain!) and exercising it to it's full potential. ... talk2yourbaby {view}
  • It is better to influence a person by changing their heart than by pointing out where they fall short. ... Tom Krause {view}
  • Invest in YOUR child invest in OUR future! ... Anthony Mizzi {view}
  • Talk may be cheap but intelligent conversation is very expensive these days. Ask anyone with a kid in college. ... Mark Amend {view}
  • They know they have to go to class. Their first priority is to get an education. You're here to play football, but you're also here to get an education. You have got to go to class. ... Ron Zook {view}
  • Failure, is a rocket way to success. Your education starts here, ask NASA. ... Lily Chatterjee {view}
  • Never be so busy at being so good to fail to leave the heritage of integrity & good values for the generations to come. The good you do today has to survive the test of tomorrows to come! This is the responsibility of all, whether or not you want your children to have a bright future and a society that protects and fosters the values on which the happiness and prosperity of all depends! ... Lana Radovic {view}
  • Look as you walk and pass byPay attention to your heart's beatsA skip of emotion that's easy to get byThe eternity of moment that never cheats. ... Lana Radovic {view}
  • Our task is to provide an education for the kind of kids we have... Not the kind of kids we used to have... Or want to have... Or the kids that exist in our dreams. ... Mary Kay Utecht {view}
  • The educational system of a country is worthless unless it [revolutionizes the social order]. Men of scholarship, and prophetic insight, must show us the right way and lead us into light which is shining brighter and brighter. ... Carter G. Woodson {view}
  • Too much of what is called "education" is little more than an expensive isolation from reality ... Thomas Sowell {view}
  • You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R ... Dennis Miller {view}
  • The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it. ... Jean-Jacques Rousseau {view}
  • 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. ... Bill Clinton {view}
  • A college education shows a man how little other people know. ... Thomas C. Haliburton {view}
  • Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible. ... Robert M. Hutchins {view}
  • Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation. ... John Fitzgerald Kennedy {view}
  • Our students are adults returning to school. It's designed to make education possible for working adults, and provide training for unions in the area. If there ever was a time when the study of work was important, it's now in the global marketplace. ... Ruth Needleman {view}
  • Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober -- minded men. ... Socrates {view}
  • The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible ... Socrates {view}
  • The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future. ... Plato {view}
  • A Jade stone is useless before it is processed; a man is good-for-nothing until he is educated. ... Chinese Proverbs {view}
  • A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark. ... Chinese Proverb {view}
  • Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes ... Chinese Proverbs {view}
  • A bar of iron continually ground becomes a needle ... Chinese Proverbs {view}
  • Mothers and fathers will have the certainty of knowing that whatever their background, high-quality early years education and childcare services will be available to support them and their children. ... Ruth Kelly {view}
  • There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies. ... Robert Frost {view}
  • Politics without principles,Education without character,Science without humanity,and Commerce without moralityare not only useless, but also positively dangerous. ... Sri Sathya Sai Baba {view}
  • The root is education and the fruit is virtue. ... Sri Sathya Sai Baba {view}
  • I just believe that everybody has concerns and is interested in the educational process, ... St. Ambrose {view}
  • Besides the continuing education we get as fitness professionals, I think the way you truly learn your job is through the immediate feedback you get from the people you're helping. I learned long ago when I first started that people will surprise me with how much they can do once they set their minds to it. I'm a tour guide along that path to success and I show them the milestones. ... Mike Shanks {view}
  • Education is always very important. Ultrasound is, I think, quite a niche market. We know our customers very well. We listen to a lot of feedback and they're more than happy to tell us their thoughts. ... Glenn Davis {view}
  • We're just in dire need of room for special education. We're using all the space we can, including closets and showers. ... Glenn Martin {view}
  • Athletically and academically, it has been a great experience to come to LMU. To get a top education and be a part of a special team has been terrific ... I could not have hoped for anything better. ... Mike Wojnarowicz {view}
  • Dr. Walker was recognized as one of the most accomplished and dedicated higher education professionals in this country. He was a caring and decent man who accomplished a great deal for Southern Illinois University through his positive outlook on life and his wonderful sense of humor. ... Glenn Poshard {view}
  • The lawyer can play a role in the education of mom and pop that the kids need to get the business to work. It may make more sense for one partner to make a down payment for a house than to get the business' pots and pans and delivery vehicles. ... Gil McBride {view}
  • That's just part of a total education that we provide to our kids. ... Stan Kerr {view}
  • Go across the lawn to the education building and look at those precious pictures, ... All of those people risked their lives to share their faith in this community and beyond, and so must you. ... Greg Myers {view}
  • The subjects are math, phonics, language arts, science, art, music and physical education, and history instead of social studies, which I really like. ... Candace Crandall {view}
  • I feel education is the key to any child's success. It does my heart good to see them go on to school - and a $10,000 or $12,000 scholarship amount increment goes a long way. ... Beth Russell {view}
  • Coach education is very important for UEFA. If you educate good coaches, they in turn produce good players. So each country is enthusiastic about the training of its coaches. ... Andy Roxburgh {view}
  • The material from the competition will be available to the associations for use in coach education and other technical work. ... Andy Roxburgh {view}
  • I have a gut feeling we are slowly, inch by inch, destroying quality education for all students. ... Al Williams {view}
  • I think this year we are really focusing on education, ... We need to embrace those who set out to harm our community, because really something is wrong with them. ... Aaron Blake {view}
  • We think this just lends to the idea that education is a community activity. ... Dave Martin {view}
  • Our goal from the beginning has been to blur the line between education and entertainment, ... why not have one with our goal of education? ... Will Pearson {view}
  • Our goal is to get more efficiency into the dollars that are being spend on education. ... Tim Mooney {view}
  • Internships are very important part of our education program, first and foremost. In setting up professional internships, not only will we be able to offer students a chance to work with industry professionals, but the students also will be able to take the theory they learn in the classroom and put it into practice here, in whichever activity they're focused. ... Craig Miller {view}
  • This was a great weekend for the Science of Racing and our new education partner, Drexel University's Math Forum. To go to the final round in our first race of 2006 is beyond belief. ... Paul Lee {view}
  • We are all neighbors, and there is nothing negative about considering going together for a better education. We could offer the kids more if we had a larger school. ... Kenny Weathers {view}
  • A good half of the group has degrees in music or music education. ... Nancy Clew {view}
  • Two-thirds of government employees work in education, public safety, corrections or are judges. You don't want high turnover in those professions, so you need benefits that encourage long-term retention. ... Keith Brainard {view}
  • [In Is Higher Education for the Negro Hopeless? Dunbar responds to an essay in which Charles Dudley Warner, a white writer, contended blacks were better suited for industrial training, not higher learning. Dismissing Warner as] one who speaks without authority, ... I believe I know my own people pretty thoroughly. I know them all classes, the high and the low, and have yet to see any young man or young woman who had the spirit of work in them before, driven from labor by a college education. ... Paul Laurence Dunbar {view}
  • If you look at his performance, his education, his attainments, that is the kind of person who has the quality to be in the Supreme Court. This man has a mind like a jewel. ... Kent Conrad {view}
  • Every day and every dollar the education establishment uses to defeat this proposal is a day and a dollar they cannot spend on other political activities. ... Tim Mooney {view}
  • The education process is about myth busting. One of the biggest myths is (colon cancer) is not prevalent in women. ... Nancy Freeman {view}
  • The scale and scope of higher education in America was being shaped by the recognition that research -- the creation of knowledge --complemented teaching and training -- the diffusion of knowledge, ... Alan Greenspan {view}
  • We strongly believe that the development of historical areas should extend to offering educational and training services to the inhabitants. ... Mohamed Mekawy {view}
  • As Thomas Friedman points out in his bestseller 'The World is Flat,' broad changes in global education, technology, world economies and markets and communication have made the world's citizens more dependent on each other than any other time in history. The south Montgomery County area similarly is impacted by what occurs around the world. ... Steve Head {view}
  • This program would raise the notch of education in Marion County. It would create a real competitiveness amongst students, amongst schools. It will be a real boon for this county. ... Steve Hering {view}
  • A business office education student from Enterprise High School, Melissa Carmichael, also works in the revenue department. ... Steve Hicks {view}
  • The economy continues to shift towards those areas which require high skills and a higher degree of education. ... Steve Hine {view}
  • This could sap thousands of dollars from schools that are already financially strapped to provide education to children. Obviously, we wouldn't want that to happen. We want to protect our partners so we are moving them to other, private organizations. ... Greg Shields {view}
  • Hopefully the state can work out a system soon that more equitably distributes education resources in our state, something desperately needed by low wealth counties like Bladen, ... Greg Taylor {view}
  • If Republicans are vulnerable, it is on education. Collectively, they have not been able to give us anything more than gridlock on this issue. ... Greg Thielemann {view}
  • Increases in enrolments reflect the growing recognition and appeal of the group's educational offerings, ... Frank Thompson {view}
  • Arizona has lagged behind for a long time. Parents are making it very clear they want education. Clearly we can do better. ... Jeanine L'Ecuyer {view}
  • This program is a great opportunity for students as well as parents to be educated on education debt. We are here to help students and parents figure everything out. ... Jeff Wallace {view}
  • The job takes a lot of patience, a working knowledge of special education law, which is highly complicated, and an ability to have a vision for meeting the needs of students whose needs are not usually met in a school setting. ... Jeanne Collins {view}
  • A second question is, will consumers be likely, even if there is education about what the government is conducting, will they even be likely to know what's coming and that they're eligible for this voucher? The answer is probably not. ... Jeannine Kenney {view}
  • The New York Education Grants have been extremely successful in helping to provide unique Broadway experiences to young people, many of whom may not have had the opportunity to go to the theatre before. Education programs are crucial for the growth and survival of Broadway, as they encourage young people to develop a lifelong appreciation of the arts. ... Jed Bernstein {view}
  • Kirkwood has helped my education by teaching about the constitutional laws and social laws. ... Jed Jones {view}
  • Wages aren't keeping up with skyrocketing energy, housing, medical, and education costs. What's more, companies are laying off in one division while hiring?mostly contract workers?in others. ... Jeff Anderson {view}
  • These policies, which consign 50 percent of children to poverty, neglect quality early education, generate huge income disparities, result in homelessness and limit access to quality nutrition and critical health services, may differentiate children in the South from those in other regions. ... Jeffrey Goldhagen {view}
  • Especially if we look at the Mexicans, these are people with fairly low levels of formal education. They're not able to get licensing or credentials in the United States because of their status, so the kinds of jobs available to them in the United States are somewhat limited. ... Jeffrey Passel {view}
  • They go into debt to get an education -- and you're already in debt just living, ... Patricia Houston {view}
  • Education is the organization of acquired habits of conduct and tendencies to behavior . ... William James {view}
  • Education is the key in getting me out of where I was at. ... Patricia Houston {view}
  • We would like to see a major public education campaign about the consequences of engaging in this kind of behavior and that would include posters and notices all through the airports, including bars and restaurants that are serving alcohol. ... Patricia Friend {view}
  • You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving. ... Anatole France {view}
  • It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a super inducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body. ... Thomas Henry Huxley {view}
  • It's enough already. For me, personally, education is the most important issue. ... Chris Ferguson {view}
  • Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach ... Albert Einstein {view}
  • Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs. ... Albert Einstein {view}
  • If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around ... Jim Rohn {view}
  • I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship. ... Louisa May Alcott {view}
  • There is no education like adversity ... Benjamin Disraeli {view}
  • Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. ... Bertrand Russell {view}
  • Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young ... George Bernard Shaw {view}
  • Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know. ... G. K. Chesterton {view}
  • Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard. ... Robert Frost {view}
  • The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. ... Robert M. Hutchins {view}
  • Education is hanging around until you've caught on. ... Robert Frost {view}
  • You look at Gov. Bush's education proposals -- he wants a big role for the federal government. My education policies are rooted in parents, communities and teachers. ... Steve Forbes {view}
  • An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it's knowing how to use the information you get. ... William Feather {view}
  • There were many tie votes in the Texas House in 2005 on critical education bills, so a new Austin legislator could be the tiebreaker. We need a lawmaker who will consistently be on the side of public school parents and PTA leaders. Austin's new leader should have the courage to stand with parents and not succumb to pressure by power brokers promoting ideological education agendas. ... Carolyn Boyle {view}
  • One of the biggest credits that gets missed and that we find the most is the education credit for students in college. ... Beverly Bosh {view}
  • Education is knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it's knowing how to use the information you get. ... William Feather {view}
  • But the state's concern should be about the other 5 percent. We have no information about what kind of education they are receiving from their parents. Not finding out is a failing on the part of the state of Michigan. ... David Plank {view}
  • We hope people will learn about who native people are and the contemporary issues we face in education, politics and the environment. ... Caroline Stasulat {view}
  • It's a nice combination. There's an education component to the book fair, of course, and also in civic activism in protesting the war. ... Steven Heller {view}
  • I had never read a word, nor seen a movie. I had to immerse and educate myself. But the advantage is I'm sort of coming to the material very fresh, and I saw instantly how this is a story for the stage. ... Steven Dietz {view}
  • I wanted to show our commitment to our outreach programs and our efforts to raise money for training and education of the next generation of city and county managers. ... William Whitson {view}
  • Self-education is self-love. Love thyself. ... Yosola Olaleye {view}
  • Life can be defined "Lived" only when it is exploited to educate other souls about the Lord. ... Aniruddha Sastikar {view}
  • College education is an investment. Much like the stock market, no ones forcing you to participate, but you feel the need to because its been a worthwhile investment for so many other people you know. And if you go down the post-secondary road, make sure you plan your trip. ... Anthony Magestro {view}
  • If education cannot make you a better person then it is better not to be educated. ... Ipe Mathew {view}
  • An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest for a very long time. ... Mpafane Deyi {view}
  • Yesterday I knew how to make a new brush in photoshop totally myself, though I had never worked with brushes before (didn't even use, not create),hmm, interesting experience. Even if to think abstractly -TODAY- you don't know what something means & how it can be used!TOMORROW- you not only use but create a new one of the same kind! Isn't it paradox of life?! Isn't it a prove that there're so much new to learn & so many possibilities and opportunities which're just one step from you & me. ... Svetlana Shchedrina | LuckyOptimist {view}
  • Fear not an army of well funded and educated intellectuals ... its the brave man with nothing to loose who can pull you down on your knees ! ... Mohamad Ghalayini {view}
  • We can address the whole person in a faith-based educational system, ... Christina Johnson {view}
  • Freedom involves a knowledge of choices. This alone is reason enough to get an education. ... Bill Lemley {view}
  • Public education and work force development are pivotal components to the economy and attracting and retaining business. One of the core principals of public education is to give everyone the opportunity to succeed, and that opportunity can be threatened for some students in large classes. ... Chip Terhune {view}
  • That is not unusual at all. Generally we don't find any direct tie between resource spending and outcomes on education. ... Bill King {view}
  • Why not enhance their training with continuing education, and get every coach to take a class solely on steroids and what to look for. ... Chip Salvestrini {view}
  • We look for a proven history of success. Some successful advisers have a high school education, but they have successfully owned and operated their own business; others have their master's degree. ... Christian Clinton {view}
  • He could be defeated and go if he cannot get the education measures through. It would be such a huge political failure, he couldn't continue. ... Bill Jones {view}
  • Our scores are all above the state and the Green River Education Cooperative region. ... Ann Evans {view}
  • What we are finding is that more and more people take their own initiative when saving for education. What has happened is we are getting a lot more people interested. It takes a while for these sorts of funds to build. ... Chris Wright {view}
  • We want to ensure that technical college education remains a vital part of getting students work force ready. ... Chris Williams {view}
  • The tone of the ad has to be much more educational, not promotional. ... Billy Tauzin {view}
  • State mediation [of a proposed educational plan] usually becomes necessary only when there was a breakdown in communications. ... Chet Bialicki {view}
  • Now we're all working toward putting a solid bid before the Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce) as soon as possible, ... David Vincent {view}
  • The definition needs to be one that makes sense to the public and to the business of education. ... Catherine Clark {view}
  • She felt that if you educated a woman, you educated a family. ... Cecilia Mruk {view}
  • Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it. ... Cate Blanchett {view}
  • I got my credential, my degree (and) my master's and I just ended up in the education system, moving from school to school to school. Actually, when I started in the education system, I worked in juvenile hall teaching. ... Catalina Nocon {view}
  • The importance of teachers in American education has never been a question, but recent research has established beyond doubt that the most important element of student achievement is the quality of the teacher. At the Corporation, we believe one of the most critical issues facing the country is the preparation of America's teachers, which is just not good enough. Creating a vision for change and sharing how to improve teacher preparation is something the Corporation is committed to. We are pleased to join forces with the Annenberg Foundation in pursuit of this goal. ... Vartan Gregorian {view}
  • Our main purpose for having the citizens government academy is really just to educate people in the community. About what is really going on in city government. ... Catiel Felts {view}
  • The secret to not getting scammed and successfully getting a timeshare is all in the educational process prior to purchasing, ... It eliminates about 90 percent of the problems with timesharing. ... Bill Rogers {view}
  • Boating accidents have decreased over the years, and the reason is the boater safety education program is working, and will continue to work. ... Dick Smith {view}
  • The lesson you learn best, is the lesson you learn the hardest... ... Sedat Seals {view}
  • This experience has made me realize that I want to continue my education with an advanced degree. ... Chris Brewer {view}
  • Doubt grows with knowledge. ... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {view}
  • It's not difficult to teach something to somebody but it's not easy to educate somebody in something ... uut sriwahyuningutami {view}
  • Teaching a child to read, is like teaching someone a different language. You understand that they are smart, they just don't speak your language ... talk2yourbaby {view}
  • Knowledge doesn't care about DNA, income or social status; it is found only by those who seek it. ... talk2yourbaby {view}
  • Everyone is intelligent and is able to learn anything with the right teacher. ... talk2yourbaby {view}
  • Having a number of mini trust funds makes sense. We can consider doing the same thing for postsecondary education, perhaps creating a wellness fund and have a revenue stream where we could pursue wellness initiatives within the province, ... Roger Gibbins {view}
  • We all understand that we must exercise in order the build and strengthen every muscle in our body, Yet, when it comes to our brain which is a muscle we think that it's all DNA. ... talk2yourbaby {view}
  • Our customers are mostly well-educated, newly retired couples. They tend to have technical backgrounds, such as engineering, or they were educators. Some just like the mechanics of how our roof lift system works. ... Chris Hanson {view}
  • get right at the heart of how we fund public education in this state. ... Jon Corzine {view}
  • Business education is a booming industry. ... Patrick Harker {view}
  • Business education is a booming industry. Business is the most powerful force for positive change in the world today. ... Patrick Harker {view}
  • Being partners with education means bringing business volunteers in to our schools to show that the economics of life and business are relevant to present and future success. ... John Madden {view}
  • He was the best fit for C-J. He knows Catholic education. He knows football and he'll embrace the traditions of C-J. ... John Marshall {view}
  • Chevron's contribution is an investment in education that will expand learning opportunities about the state's entrepreneurial culture for thousands of Bay Area children and families each year. A visit to the Oakland Museum of California is a wonderful way to understand the dynamics of the state's environment and its people. ... John McDonald {view}
  • This is going from bad to worse; it's an absolute shambles. Some children may not get their education because of the bungling of the Local Education Authority. ... John Murphy {view}
  • We actually call it Parish Religious Education Programs. The demand is growing. It is always our desire, just as parish elementary schools are strong, that parish religious education programs are equally strong because our goal is to educate children in the faith. ... Donna Farrell {view}
  • Dover's modest curriculum change embodies the essence of liberal education. ... Patrick Gillen {view}
  • Without question, a diagnosis of an attention deficit disorder does not necessarily equate to a need for special education, ... James Whittemore {view}
  • As the institute moves forward in providing judicial education to Texas' justice court judges and clerks, Kimberly will be a valuable asset to our program. ... Richard Avery {view}
  • After investing more than $500 million in business infrastructure and education during the present cycle, the success of these investments is expected to drive increased funding. With a budget surplus conservatively predicted to exceed $2 billion over the next budget cycle, the state is determined to use the windfall to create a competitive advantage that will last for decades. ... Mark Willis {view}
  • This initiative holds great promise for expanding the use of online education for students and educators in Michigan. We are committed to working in partnership with Michigan schools to support this innovative education policy reform strategy. ... Jamey Fitzpatrick {view}
  • In the last 20 years, the link between education and manufacturing has been left to rot on the vine. ... Dan Swinney {view}
  • There's a process of educating both the customer and the partners that serve them on the kinds of solutions that are germane to them. ... Margo Day {view}
  • If we have to look at new revenues, so be it. The fact is, higher education in general doesn't have a lot of advocates out there pounding on the table. We have to do a better job. But getting people to get out and advocate and stand up and take some hits and confront maybe some of their friends it's hard to do sometimes. ... James Huffines {view}
  • This isn't higher education studying itself, ... James Hunt {view}
  • This isn't higher education studying itself. There are a lot of higher education people here. But there are also people here who are directly involved in whether or not (the United States is) going to have the good jobs in the future. ... James Hunt {view}
  • It would make it much more difficult to provide an adequate free public education for our children. ... Annemarie Spadafora {view}
  • We're amending the tax levy for 2005 to capture the education rate money that's legal since it was approved (by voters on March 21) and modify next year's levy so we maximize state aid. ... Cheryl Crates {view}
  • I believe that Seattle voters will understand that my unique experience in education and city government would be a nice complement to the existing board, ... Cheryl Chow {view}
  • All of this is geared toward providing an education system in Arkansas from top to bottom that is not merely adequate but excellent. ... Bill Halter {view}
  • They hear that message all the time from people in the educational world, ... Chris Simpson {view}
  • Mainly they'll talk about with them the importance of education the importance of the choices they make, ... Chris Simpson {view}
  • We brag when our athletic teams are the top 20 in the country. We need an education team that's in the top 20 as well. ... Bill Halter {view}
  • It is good for the voters to see them, ... Our aim is to educate voters. ... Ann Clark {view}
  • I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am ... Alice James {view}
  • There were plenty of role models for us. My mother believed in education and she put all three of us through college at Grambling. She did not have a high school education, but it was something she impressed upon us. After I graduated, I left Texarkana for California, because I knew I could not get a job here. I was in business with certification and accounting, so I figured it was best to go out West. So I went there. It was still tough to get in that field, but things opened up for me. ... Al Davis {view}
  • Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them. ... Lord Chesterfield {view}
  • The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work ... Sandra Day O'Conner {view}
  • Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today ... Malcolm X {view}
  • The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one. ... William James {view}
  • Education will not (take the place of persistence); the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. ... Calvin Coolidge {view}
  • Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity ... Thomas Jefferson {view}
  • Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. ... Jane Austen {view}
  • The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things that education must try to produce ... Virginia Gildersleeve {view}
  • It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry. ... Albert Einstein {view}
  • If you think education is expensive, try ignorance ... Derek Bok {view}
  • Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. ... William Butler Yeats {view}
  • A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education ... Theodore Roosevelt {view}
  • Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education ... Stephen R. Covey {view}
  • What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation? ... Marcus Tullius Cicero {view}
  • We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life. ... Maria Montessori {view}
  • The best of my education has come from the public library... my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents for an overdue book. You don't need to know very much to start with, if you know the way to the public library. ... Lesley Conger {view}
  • Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge. ... Plato {view}
  • The Kansas board should be applauded for its courage in raising the bar for quality science education, ... John Calvert {view}
  • Lisa's commitment to Great Basin College and higher education in rural Nevada is extraordinary. ... Kim Miller {view}
  • a major advance in public education. ... John Calvert {view}
  • It's been a great education. These effects aren't going to go away. ... Duncan Clark {view}
  • This is a time of accountability in education. ... Kim Rabon {view}
  • I felt like enough is enough. I just wanted them to pay for the educational hours. ... Kim Risner {view}
  • My impression is that allowing an expanded role for the market in education and health care is off the table. Rural land ownership is also too sensitive to consider now. ... Mao Shoulong {view}
  • I think first you have to educate the jury about the drug, what Merck knew, when Merck knew it, what Merck did with its knowledge. ... Mark Lanier {view}
  • The only thing that is more dangerous than a gang member with a weapon is a parent or an educator in denial. There's no excuse for parental ignorance. Turning their head and looking the other way can lead the kids into gangs in the first place. ... Kenneth Trump {view}
  • The contribution is designated for children's education and a play area -- nothing more. ... Jim Cain {view}
  • We conclude that learning improvement days are optional and are not necessarily a component of the basic education the state is obliged to provide to all children, ... Tom Chambers {view}
  • Growth will continue in education and health, which have been the only steady gainers in this century. But it is now moving into business and professional services, which holds many of the highest-skilled jobs in the economy. ... Lyssa Jenkens {view}
  • Individuals of merit always find themselves subjects of interest elsewhere across the landscape of American higher education, and this has been the case with Vice President West, ... Jimmy Jones {view}
  • I'm confident with some education, kids will do just fine. It's up to parents and educators to help them become aware. ... Jim Boyce {view}
  • They told me that they could offer me a career and all the education, adventure and travel, and money I could want.Of course I said yes. ... Dr. Archie Savage {view}
  • There is a failure in the core values of education. They're told to go to college in order to get a better job -- and that's okay. But the real task is to produce educated people. ... Michael Gorman {view}
  • It's an education lottery, and that money needs to go to education. ... Jimmy Garris {view}
  • They're trying to bid down what we're going to do in the area of education, and we're not prepared to be bid down. ... Michael Gronstal {view}
  • Through this new initiative with Southwest Airlines, we are committed to helping Hispanic students attain a higher education, ... San Antonio {view}
  • We're happy for all of them to get a college education and hopefully play some ball somewhere. ... Grady McCluskey {view}
  • China's education system is a no man's land. Schools have too much autonomy, they receive government funding, but they are not monitored. ... Andy Xie {view}
  • It's more like the Oxford model of education, where a student takes on a project, goes off and does it and comes back to report on it, ... Steve Lemke {view}
  • I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers. ... Arnold Schwarzenegger {view}
  • (Conductive education) is not a good fit for other disorders, like autism and Down syndrome, ... It's designed specifically for motor skill disabilities and it doesn't work well with cognitive disabilities. ... Stephanie Reed {view}
  • Education is a top priority for Gov. Bush, and he has provided specific details about his plan. The American people deserve for Al Gore to do the same. Since the Gore budget overspends the surplus, it's important for him to release the specifics of his plan so we'll know what promises he will not keep once the election is over. ... Ari Fleischer {view}
  • It's one of the states we hear about most often. We need better laws, better enforcement, and a more educated public. ... Stephanie Shain {view}
  • A strong public education system is just essential to business and economic growth. We've been focused on desegregation for 41 years. Now, we get to focus on the next step. It's up to us to do it. No one has a big stick standing over us. I always find that voluntary efforts are the most fruitful - plus, we have no excuses. ... Gary McGoffin {view}
  • There's no replacing solid education. If people follow our guidelines to safe drinking, the way it's ingested doesn't matter. ... Steve Lux {view}
  • He'll mention the fact that the federal government didn't talk about post-secondary education in the throne speech. ... Darrell Dexter {view}
  • Something permanently dedicated to classrooms and education is needed ... to carry out (the) mission. ... Bruce Clark {view}
  • We want to underscore our commitment to helping students achieve their higher education goals. Paying the one percent default fee on behalf of our education loan customers will result in significant, real-world cost savings for thousands of students, and help them realize their educational aspirations. ... Tracy Grooms {view}
  • Education, inter-faith dialogue and the culture of tolerance should be promoted, ... Manmohan Singh {view}
  • Schools are used for not just the education of school aged children. They're used for adult learning. They're used for community meetings. They're used for health and fitness for community groups. ... Darrell Dexter {view}
  • My research fills the void. Most studies aren't in higher education and don't study leadership, education and feminism together. ... Tracy Barton {view}
  • In general, the climate of higher education is still unfriendly towards women. ... Tracy Barton {view}
  • Much of education is out of touch with the value of practical experience compared to academic experience when it comes to technical trainer positions. When I spoke to ASE about this, I used our newsletter as an example. It had seven ads in it for automotive faculty and six out of the seven required at least a bachelor's degree. In reality, when it comes to automotive degrees, an associate's degree is pretty much the routine degree that technicians would secure. ... Dan Perrin {view}
  • The Minister really set a positive tone. I think it's the first time an education minister made a public statement that funding in these areas was flat. ... Bruce Campbell {view}
  • We feel the best education for each individual child is with school choice. It involves the parents directly in the process of their child's education and they have some governance, in that they can seek another school if they are unhappy with the present school. And historically, our kids do well at whatever school they attend. ... Francie Tolan {view}
  • He wants to spend more on education and other issues. We think we need to spend more on education. But those dollars need to go directly to those school districts and not bureaucracies, ... Late Edition. ... Dennis Hastert {view}
  • Republicans believe that the federal government plays a limited but very important federal role in education. We simply want to help schools get the money that they need to improve education without so many Washington strings attached, ... Dennis Hastert {view}
  • They are going through a period of self-education about how the system works. We expect the Chinese to continue to move in the right direction. ... Tim Adams {view}
  • The point is, let's encourage America's families to save for education. ... Dianne Feinstein {view}
  • Some people talk about education at election time. Al Gore has worked to improve it over a lifetime, ... He will revolutionize public education by investing more and demanding more. He'll treat teachers like the professionals they are. And with Joe Lieberman by his side, he'll continue what we started. ... Patty Murray {view}
  • We are deeply disappointed that the administration has chosen, once again, to eliminate federal funding for education technology. Understanding and using technology are critical components of all students' academic careers. We do not see how eliminating federal education technology funding advances [the president's] global competitiveness agenda or helps our students. ... Don Knezek {view}
  • I love that stuff. It's part of their education and it ends up being part of mine. ... Pat Murphy {view}
  • I'm convinced you can get great quality of education at a huge variety of schools. And that's coming from someone who is a graduate of Harvard. ... Don Heller {view}
  • In a sense, my approach to education is the opposite of my approach to real estate. The apartments and offices I build aren't cheap, so there's an element of exclusivity there, but Trump University is meant to be inclusive. A contradiction? I don't know, but so what if it is? ... Donald Trump {view}
  • It's confusing when things are said that are not completely accurate. Education is so important. ... Chris Leonard {view}
  • The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced. ... John Ruskin {view}
  • Those graduating with degrees in business, engineering, computer science, education and health care should find a relatively welcoming job market. ... John Challenger {view}
  • We go into neighborhoods as coaches and think we can convince a kid that 'son, if you get educated, you'll go to college, have a good job, a car,' ... That's bull. We don't understand that as he looks out of his eyes and sees Mike Tyson and others like him as heroes, he feels everything is instant. He thinks, I can gain a lifestyle without waiting 10, 15 years. It's easier to go out and commit a crime. ... John Chaney {view}
  • Education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness; and that the adjustment of individual activity on the basis of this social consciousness is the only sure method of social reconstruction. ... John Dewey {view}
  • I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself. ... John Dewey {view}
  • We'll have somebody there, because we think it's important for all the education groups to unite and help the children on the Gulf Coast. ... John Wilson {view}
  • [GWU offers graduate programs in education, engineering and business.] Our campus just recently went from 50 acres to 95 acres. We're growing, ... Even with the arrival of GMU, the demand will still be high. ... John Wilson {view}
  • First and foremost I am happy that these two guys will get to continue their education. They are not just good kids, they are good people and I wish them the best of luck at the next level. ... Jerome Antone {view}
  • This is just something we do to get parents more involved with their children's education. We all want parents to be really involved because that's the key to your child's education. ... Donna Grady {view}
  • It's amazing what Nita did in five years. She got an education and had a career. ... Terry Lewis {view}
  • When we look at core safety net programs -- housing, health care, education -- that impact low-income individuals, the state of the union is not only strong, but in this area the programs are effective and working. ... Tara Wall {view}
  • If you want more investment in education and pensions, cast a vote for the Liberal Democrats. ... Charles Kennedy {view}
  • We invite you to help career and technical education students and their teachers celebrate Career and Education Week. The highlight of the week is the 13th Annual Career Ed Expo. ... Billie Vaultonburg {view}
  • (Wednesday) we will determine whether or not Massachusetts stands for the dreams of an education or if Massachusetts is going to lose in the face of politics of fear and hatred. ... Ali Noorani {view}
  • I just bought a house myself and went through some issues. I thought this would be educational. ... Charles James {view}
  • The Department for Education and Skills should also consider whether there is scope to realize further efficiency and effectiveness benefits through a child population register. ... Des Browne {view}
  • Interest is one of the strongest motivating factors in a child's education. ... Charles Howell {view}
  • I believe this really upholds the First Amendment and is sound educationally. ... Charles Haynes {view}
  • This matters because education leads to opportunity. What happens to the second and third generations is the story of the future of California. ... Deborah Reed {view}
  • The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government ... Sam Houston {view}
  • You can't legislate good will - that comes through education ... Malcolm X {view}
  • Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world. ... Malcolm X {view}
  • The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery. ... Plato {view}
  • Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. ... John Dewey {view}
  • The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education. ... Plutarch {view}
  • The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct. ... Sir Robert Baden-Powell {view}
  • The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his own education ... John W. Gardner {view}
  • The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual, and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society. ... John Dewey {view}
  • To teach is to learn twice. ... Joseph Joubert {view}
  • The only way we will make a difference is through education. ... Joan Vienna {view}
  • I think some of the students will be ones who want to pursue professional technical education and get a two-year associate degree. Some may be students who applied to Boise State and couldn't get in. We turned away 800 last fall. ... Dr. Bob Kustra {view}
  • You have got to educate people, and you need to enforce existing laws, so that people do not intrude onto grade crossings and that people are more careful as they approach grade crossings. ... Cliff Black {view}
  • It depends on how states look at scarce resources and their commitment to higher education. ... Michael Whitcomb {view}
  • Connectivity at the home opens the door for a new paradigm in education. We'll be able to link homes and schools like never before through interactive multimedia tools. There are a plethora of applications that make schools more flexible in the present performance of its duties. ... Joe Kitchens {view}
  • We want to give the chimpanzees an ideal retirement home and, at the same time, provide a unique conservation education resource for residents and visitors from around the world. ... Michael Williams {view}
  • Lee grew up and had his education in Japan, he has a strong Japan complex and must trust Japanese health system more than Taiwan, ... Jin Zhong {view}
  • People get empowered by the education. ... Lynette Willie {view}
  • He didn't raise my taxes, he promised me he wouldn't. He's given money to education, more money to health care, more money to the veterans. ... Doug Aurand {view}
  • We believe education will turn around our bankruptcy rates in our state. At present, the group most declaring bankruptcy is the 26-to-35-year-old demographic. But, the 18-to-25-year-old group is fast overtaking that group, and that alarms us. We hope that this course, which will be taken by (high school) juniors or seniors, will raise their understanding so they can avoid pitfalls that will send them or their spouse into a serious financial situation. ... Lynn Rowe {view}
  • Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire. ... Bobby Unser {view}