946 private quotes tagged education

“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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“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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“Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“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

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

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“Your library is your paradise.” — Desiderius Erasmus

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

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

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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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“My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.” — Benedict Cumberbatch

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

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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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“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

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“Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.” — Charles R. Swindoll

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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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“The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.” — William Ralph Inge

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“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” — Sydney J. Harris

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