Quotes About Education

She is fond of books and it has turned her brain.

Don't go to school, I'm a businessman—girl, I mean.

Aún tenía que descubrir que el dinero no sirve para comprar el refinamiento, que la posición social no siempre es sinónimo de nobleza y que la buena educación se nota aunque la persona tenga que hacer frente a carencias

The more proposals, the more credit. Fan says Trix always asks when she comes home after the summer excursions, how many birds have you bagged as if men were partridges. What wicked creatures we are! Some of us at least. I wonder why such a love of conquest was put into us? Mother says a great deal of it is owing to bad education nowadays, but some girls seem born for the express purpose of making trouble, and would manage to do it, if they lived in a howling wilderness.

purpose and principle are the best teachers we can have, and the want of them makes half the women of America what they are, restless, aimless, frivolous, and sick.

For purpose and principle are the best teachers we can have, and the want of them makes half the women of America what they are, restless, aimless, frivolous, and sick.

Like Ben Franklin, Hamilton was mostly self-taught and probably snatched every spare moment to read. The

He favored vocational training for blacks, not intellectual equality with whites.

For instance, in 1886, he pledged $30,000 to Morehouse, hoping that it would prove the catalyst for a $150,000 fund drive.

Since Rockefeller believed in meritocracy, not aristocracy, he favored educational opportunities for minorities.

Fundada em 1746 para contrabalançar a influência da Igreja da Inglaterra, Princeton era um foco de posições presbiterianas e Whigs, pregava a liberdade religiosa e talvez parecesse uma escolha lógica para Hamilton.

While the GEB achieved remarkable things in upgrading southern education, it failed to deliver major results where it had originally wanted them most: in black education.

Much of this last gift was routed to the University of Chicago.

During Peabody's last years, the scope of his charity grew dazzling. He endowed a natural history museum at Yale University, an archaeology and ethnology museum at Harvard, and an educational fund for emancipated southern blacks. For this last, he handed over a $1-million batch of defaulted Mississippi and

Rockefeller kept renewing his earnest plea that Margaret be educated in New York City, and it became a sore point with him that Charles refused to oblige him.

I never felt the need of scientific knowledge, have never felt it.

He preferred to give to religious, cultural, and educational causes, not to social welfare agencies.

I should say in general the advantage of education is to better fit a man for life's work.

a condição de aluno especial, que tinha sessões particulares com os professores e assistia a aulas, mas que não pertencia, pelo menos a princípio, a nenhuma turma específica.

He also wanted Gates to make on-site inspections of schools and not rely on secondhand reports.

If education depended upon healthy tax rolls, then they would lift the entire tax base of the South.

If every kid who said he was going to the library, when he was really off doing something else, actually went to the library, they'd have to send out for more books.

Summer school's a drag.

I'd see that look again when I taught at the community college, always in the eyes of women who'd grown up hard, a distrust of anything spoken softly.