Quotes of: Educated Keyword

True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.

David O. McKay

Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.

John Henrik Clarke

Count Orsini-Rosenberg: Italian is the proper language for opera. All educated people agree on that.

Amadeus

A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

We care (about prison education), very simply, because (prisoners) get out. Almost everyone who is locked up now is going to be set free one day. If we treat prisoners like animals the whole time they are locked up, that's what we'll get when they're...

College for Convicts: The Case for Higher Education in American Prisons

American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to t...

The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons." Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl who was shot in the head by the Taliban for wanting an education and survived, in her keynote speech to the United Nations, 12th July 2013.

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

The more Adams thought about the future of his country, the more convinced he became that it rested on education. Before any great things are accomplished, he wrote to a correspondent, a memorable change must be made in the system of education and kn...

John Adams

The landed classes neglected technical education, taking refuge in classical studies; as late as 1930, for example, long after Ernest Rutherford at Cambridge had discovered the atomic nucleus and begun transmuting elements, the physics laboratory at ...

Visions of Technology: A Century of Vital Debate About Machines Systems and the Human World

A jade stone is useless before it is processed; a man is good-for-nothing until he is educated.

Chinese

Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

The whole game was about confidence, as it always was. Everything was fine—until it wasn't.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

If the opposite of certainty is doubt, humility must lie somewhere between the two,

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

These were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders -- management skills.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

Welcome to Hartford. The poorest city in the wealthiest state in the richest country on earth.

The Children in Room E4: American Education on Trial

It didn't matter what I wore, or how much sleep I'd had or not had, he always looked at me as if his world began and ended with me.

The Education of Caroline

The great danger of law in modern student affairs practice is apathy, acceptance, and blind disobedience.

Foundations of Higher Education Law and Policy

Education always precedes experience but Your real victory is when you Experience something you haven’t been educated for and you Excel.

GWG

I remember that - you know, I didn't receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes of Montevideo. There, I received my first lessons in the art of telling stories, storytelling.

Eduardo Galeano