To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.
The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education.
Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.
Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.
Move beyond the educated elite, and the great majority in most countries outside Europe don't speak English.
I love watching great TV, whether it's to educate myself more on my craft or to just simply be entertained.
I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
I watched my parents go from having very basic jobs to educating themselves, to buying a house. They set a really good bar for what they wanted their kids to achieve.
The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.
They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer ...
The most important educational vehicle in all life is a parent figure.
I am a young, white, educated male. I got really, really lucky. And life isn't fair.
At the height of his popularity in 1977, Cat Stevens converted to Islam and dedicated his life to educational and philanthropic causes.
Life is a journey, education is our pleasure and our memory.
Schooling will give you knowledge to make your living, but education is for living a life.
Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.
Today's terrorists do not share a particular ethnic, educational or socioeconomic background.
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
