Quotes About Education

A great president must be an educator, bridging the gap between his people's future and its experience

the PAP's first nine years in power, Lee set aside nearly one-third of Singapore's budget for education Ã¢â'¬â€œ an astonishing proportion in relation to neighboring countries, or indeed any country in the world.[59]

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.

It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.

Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.

The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.

It seems to me that a great university ought to have room in it for men subscribing to every sort of idea that is currently prevalent

Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma'ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.

School days are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common decency.

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

Anxious and angry relatives are a burden all doctors must bear, but having been one myself was an important part of my medical education.

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The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

We have great managers who haven't spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that haven't spent a day in surgical school?

Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing.

Knowledge is power, and power is the possession of influence over the minds and actions of others.

Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men -- the balance wheel of the social machinery.

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Yet the bookshelf us also conspicuous in its absence. When we enter a living room without books or bookshelves, we wonder if the people in the house do nothing but watch television.

This is the Government Educational Service. Your son, Richard M. Jordan, Classification 600-115, has completed the Government examination. We regret to inform you that his intelligence quotient has exceeded the Government regulation, according to Rule 84, Section 5, of the New Code.

The Jordans never spoke of the exam, not until their son, Dickie, was twelve years old.