946 private quotes tagged education

“Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.” — James A. Baldwin

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“The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.” — John Ruskin

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“Responsibility educates.” — Wendell Phillips

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“Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq.” — Norman Schwarzkopf

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“Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.” — Dee Dee Myers

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“Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.” — Charles Barkley

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“To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.” — Aleister Crowley

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“The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.” — James A. Baldwin

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“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.” — B. F. Skinner

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“My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege.” — Ezra Koenig

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“Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.” — Maria Montessori

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“We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.” — John Ruskin

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“Your library is your paradise.” — Desiderius Erasmus

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“If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?” — Maria Montessori

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“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

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“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.” — Horace Mann

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“Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.” — John Ruskin

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“My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA.” — David Oyelowo

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“The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.” — Gary Locke

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“Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.” — Thomas Sowell

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“The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.” — John W. Gardner

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“What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.” — Stephen King

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“The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.” — Ernest Renan

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