Quotes of: College-education Keyword

There is a big difference between school education and self-education. School education has some limits to it, but self-education doesn't. So in order to unleash your greatest potential in life, you must effectively combine the two.

Edmond Mbiaka

Am I a slacker? I can be a slacker. When I was in college, most people got summer jobs for college or did research during college. I went home and watched TV the whole day for three months; it was really awesome.

Luis von Ahn

Those born in the poorest quarter of American society have an 8% chance of earning a college degree. Those born in the wealthiest quarter of American society have a 75% chance of earning a college degree.

David Brooks

Based on our badly borrowed misunderstanding of the words ‘secular’ and ‘spiritual’ we seem to have become blinded by the dominant intellectual ideology of our times, according to which schools as secular organizations are supposed to not hav...

ABC's of Indian National Education

I'm in love with college football. I have such a blast with it.

Erin Andrews

College kids, don't be taking examples from me.

Darrell Hammond

Not many college students know what they want to do.

Andie MacDowell

It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems.

Shannon Miller

Education reform has as its main purpose to make sure that the education delivered is of quality.

Enrique Pena Nieto

But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.

Kathy Ireland

Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.

David Bailey

Honestly, I had no idea how to respond. My senior year of college I’d taken a seminar titled Public Education: Situations and Strategies. I thought about emailing my professor, maybe suggest some new topics and help him get current. Maybe he’d in...

The Day Before 9/11

I had a dream about you. I was a professor, and you were my student. I taught sex education for college freshmen, and I didn’t think it unethical to trade good grades for sexual favors. I felt it would be cheating the students to not offer them the...

I had a dream about you 2

We obviously don’t live in a perfect world. If we did, then my dad would never have volunteered for Vietnam so he could use the GI Bill to pay for college, Uncle Google would have more important things to do than searching for eight hundred million...

The Rainy Season

A first-rate college library with a comfortable campus around it is a fine milieu for a writer. There is, of course, the problem of educating the young. I remember how once, between terms, not at Cornell, a student brought a transistor set with him i...

Strong Opinions

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The Big Lebowski

Real education happens only by failing, changing, challenging, and adjusting. All of those gerunds apply to teachers as well as students. No person is an “educator,” because education is not something one person does to another. Education is an i...

Siva Vaidhyanathan

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness.

Derek Bok

If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

Edmund Barton

Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.

Ellen Key