Quotes About Education

The thing about teaching and having children is that you always ended up treating your children like undergraduates, and your undergraduates like children.

She nodded. "They're counting again in California. Almost a million people voted, and the difference is about five thousand." "So much hangs on the decisions of a small number of poorly educated people." "That's democracy." Gus smiled. "A terrible way to run a country, but every other system is worse.

My father taught us to learn as much as possible of any tongue we came across. He says it's better than money in the bank.

The greater their ignorance, the stronger their opinions. Georgetown

So much hangs on the decisions of a small number of poorly educated people." "That's democracy." Gus smiled. "A terrible way to run a country, but every other system is worse.

They were taught about democracy in London, not about tyranny in Cairo.

Even if you were taken out of school for want of money, Hugh. It's no excuse for false values. The world is full of poor people who understand that love and friendship are more important than riches - Maisie Greenbourne

daremos clases y nos querremos.

Lenin también ha anunciado una jornada de ocho horas para los trabajadores y educación universal y gratuita para sus hijos.

Whatever else Lenin might have done—and it was difficult to separate the truth from the conservative propaganda—at least, Billy thought, he was serious about educating Russian children. On

su educación le había enseñado que actuar era preferible a quejarse.

Sin embargo, un exceso de disciplina podía acabar con el pensamiento crítico.

the enlightenment of mankind." Books, and the wisdom

I'm allowed to sit in on the lessons

Un giorno un giornalista mi chiese : <>. No. Le cattedrali sono sempre state affollate da turisti. Nel Medioevo non si chiamavano turisti, erano pellegrini, ma viaggiavano per gli stessi motivi: per vedere il mondo e le sue meraviglie, per ampliare i propri orizzonti, per istruirsi e forse per entrare in contatto con qualcosa di miracoloso, soprannaturale, eterno.

from her training, that

B?rbatul nu avea nici trecut, nici educaÈ›ie, nici familie, dar era inteligent È™i avea bani, iar în vremuri grele, chestiile astea valorau mai mult decât o educaÈ›ie bun?.

He was twelve years old, and he sought ringing certainties. He would have to learn slowly, like everyone else.

The fact that someone was capable of learning to read and write did not, unfortunately, make him intelligent.

She had always taught her sons that information could make a man's fortune—or save him from ruin.

Until you had a child, you did not understand how much they had to learn.

Students were expected to learn hundreds of lines from the Greek and Roman classics, then, later, from poetry in their native tongues. This tradition has faded from our lives, and something powerful has been lost.

To know some Shakespeare gives you a head start in life.

If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of only 100 people, it would look something like this: There would be 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 North and South Americans 8 Africans 30 white 70 nonwhite 6 people would possess 59% of the world's wealth, and all 6 would be from the United States 80 would live in substandard housing 70 would be unable to read 50 would suffer malnutrition 1 would have a college education 1 would own a computer