Quotes About Education

The best colleges admit only successful students, offering no evidence the college itself forged the students' late success.

Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance

School is not only a place to learn, but a place to learn how to learn.

To deny objective truths is to be scientifically illiterate, not to be ideologically principled.

There's no greater education than one that's self-driven

we shouldn't reshape our science just to avoid confusing the public

Having the right goal is essential for Christian education to be effective. According

It wasn't the degree that counted but what you did with it; he believed that too many Americans wasted time and money on college simply for the sake of a fancy piece of paper.

Most of the MacCormicks and Bedells are college grads and according to my father the youngsters have all been educated beyond their intelligence.

Brodie smiled. He said, "When shit happens, you turn it into fertilizer for your tree of knowledge.

I honestly don't know how anyone functions in this society without a law degree.

one's need an educated and understandable family to achieve one's goal

We are not like that, we engineers. We are men of understanding and of education, on whom is laid responsibility that men may travel in these aeroplanes as safely as if they were sitting by the well in the cool of the evening.

There are some people, be they black or white, who don't want others to rise above them. They want to be the source of all knowledge and share it piecemeal to others less endowed. That is what's wrong with all these carpenters and men who have a certain knowledge. It is the same with rich people.

Sivilisaation ydin ovat tekstit, jotka sen kouluissa opetetaan, jotka sen oppilaat oppivat ja jotka muistetaan koettelemusten aikana.

young people at Western schools and universities have been given the idea of a liberal education, without the substance of historical knowledge. They have been taught isolated 'modules', not narratives, much less chronologies. They have been trained in the formulaic analysis of document excerpts, not in the key skill of reading widely and fast.

You ask professors to study things, but you never put them in charge of anything.

Once the United States was famed as a land of opportunity, where a family could leap from 'rags to riches' in a generation. But today, if you are born to parents in the bottom income quintile, you have just a 5 per cent chance of getting into the top quintile without a college degree. What Charles Murray has called the 'cognitive elite', educated at exclusive private universities, intermarried and congregated in a few

If there is one educational policy I would like to see adopted throughout the United Kingdom, it would be a policy that aimed to increase significantly the number of private educational institutions Ã¢â'¬â€œ and, at the same time, to establish programmes of vouchers, bursaries and scholarships to allow a substantial number of children from lower-income families to attend them.

Intergenerational inequity in public finance, hypertrophic growth of regulation, deterioration in the rule of law and corrosion of educational institutions Ã¢â'¬â€œ taken together, these lead to a 'great degeneration' of both economic performance and (as we shall see) social cohesion.

good individuals cannot exist without good education, and good education cannot exist without good laws

Dante says:  Knowledge doth come of learning well retained,   Unfruitful else

Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.

One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.