Our nation's security, economy, and place on the world stage depends on the success our educational system.
When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
To have a baby, raise him and educate him, is something very valuable. But we, as a society, don't see it that way.
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.
I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist.
I was really educating myself on the environment, but I didn't realize it was so connected to politics, connected to globalization.
God made us unique ,creative and we screwed ourselves with education
Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.
It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.
We want character but without unyielding conviction; we want strong morality but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame; we want virtue but without particular moral justifications that invariably offend; we want good without having to name ev...
In the candle's flickering light, the library's thousands of books emerged from the shadows, and for a moment Nicholas could not help admiring them again. During free time he had almost never looked up from the pages he was reading, but now he saw th...
We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of surmounting it still with us. Ab...
That economics has a considerable conceptual apparatus with an appropriate terminology can not be a serious ground for complaint. Economic phenomena, ideas, instruments of analysis exist. They require names. Education in economics is, in considerable...
The question is not, Does or doesn't public schooling create a public? The question is, What kind of public does it create? A conglomerate of self-indulgent consumers? Angry, soulless, directionless masses? Indifferent, confused citizens? Or a public...
Entirely in accordance with what education is supposed to be. Education is the sum of what students teach each other in between lectures and seminars. You sit in each other's rooms and drink coffee - I suppose it would be vodka and Red Bull now - you...
For every 100 women who earn a bachelors degree, 75 men do so. For every 100 American women who earn a Masters degree, 66 American men do so. For every 100 females, ages 20 to 24, who commit suicide, 624 males do so. For every 100 women, ages 18 to 2...
I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy...
Daydreaming does not enjoy tremendous prestige in our culture, which tends to regard it as unproductive thought. Writers perhaps appreciate its importance better than most, since a fair amount of what they call work consists of little more than daydr...
