Quotes About Education

A nation that reads more is a nation that can do more. - Kailin Gow

the roots of education are sometimes bitter but fruits are always sweet.

Lichilai, a Sung poet, has sadly remarked that there were three most deplorable things in the world: the spoiling of fine youths through false education, the degradation of fine art through vulgar admiration, and the utter waste of fine tea through incompetent manipulation.

Our standards of morality are begotten of the past needs of society, but is society to remain always the same? The observance of communal traditions involves a constant sacrifice of the individual to the state. Education, in order to keep up the mighty delusion, encourages a species of ignorance. People are not taught to be really virtuous, but to behave properly.

People are not taught to be really virtuous, but to behave properly.

I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.

Decisions. Where, what, why. Can't handle them. So I'm prolonging the indecision with higher education.

We went to school in a place without the sun,and believed this means we had no need of our shadows.

I was the girl who could be anything-that's what my teachers used to say, and I believed them. I just never realised that 'anything'could include this.

The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

We have seven pillars of development. India has a cutting edge information technology industry. We are setting up a technology park. We would like to see technology penetration iin education. Besides, we would like to see cooperation in industries like fashion, filmmaking, ship-building, education, health and energy.

We had to write a lot of essays in school. I had a very good teacher who taught us English, V. Siddharthacharry. I enjoyed the early process of learning to structure my essays. When I came home after finishing school at eighteen, I started writing extensively. I liked to be meticulous. Initially, I read a lot on western philosophy but also made notes on the administration and constitutions of different nations and civilizations.

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.

I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.

The person unaware of history is like a rudderless boat just floating out in the middle of the ocean, hostages to the waves and currents.

If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.

he insisted, since he'd earned something more useful than a GED—a GE, his "gutter education." He

My school is very good and quite understanding and know I have to take time off for interviews or writers' festivals.

When I did 'Gilbert Grape,' Lasse Hallstrom let me be on the set with him and in the editing room and in the casting sessions and so on. And so I got a firsthand, rather intimate, high-pressure look at how to make a film.

Computers intimidate me.