Quotes About Education

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

respected for their talent rather than endured for their color and that they would be read by all our students on a regular basis. An

The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as intellectual instruction.

Political involvement is reduced to minimal, anodyne terms: "People everywhere want to say what they think; choose who will govern them; worship as they please; educate their children—male and female; own property; and enjoy the benefits of their labor.

The strategy followed by privatization's advocates is, first, to discredit welfare functions as "socialism" and then either to sell those functions to a private bidder or to privatize a particular program. A traditional governmental function, such as education, is in process of being redefined, from a promise to make education accessible to all to an investment opportunity for venture capital.12

She became interested in performing when she was six and won a scholarship to the school. If she hadn't, she couldn't have gone.

As elite attitudes towards public education over time illustrate, simple formulas are far from adequate. There are conflicting tendencies.

A democracy depends upon people getting brighter all the time. Democracies are delicate. They're not just ipso facto and just go on and on.

I'm in film school, so I really have to sock away my money for school, tuition, and so on, and I really don't have time.

The only thing I am interested in using mathematics for is to have a good time and to help others do the same.

Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

We need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish.

If people would turn their TVs off for half the time, study science and practice an instrument, they'd be virtuosos and have Ph.Ds!

I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.

If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.

I'm learning all the time." "Well, you're a scholar.

I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in New York and I needed money, so I started working full time as an editor.

Teaching is another area I like to explore. I've had a lot of great role models and people who have taken the time over the years to help me - and the wheel turns.

The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.

I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.

I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.

The best way to learn anything is through a movie, because you have so much time to do it and you have great people teaching you.

If you're looking to become an entrepreneur then don't waste your time going to university or business school - just get on and do it.

I was reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare, which is why I'm not a complete idiot at this time.