I fully support U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his Global Education First Initiative and the work of U.N. Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown and the respectful president of the U.N. General Assembly Vuk Jeremic. I thank them for t...
My family didn't have time for me, so I decided to join the Suvorov military academy, which is in St. Petersburg. I spent two years there and studied general military science. At that point, once I graduated, I joined the Chernigov higher education p...
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Pe...
On avoiding the darker side of life in educational literature for children: "There is something ludicrous in the idea of so educating a generation which is born to the atomic bomb. Since it is likely that they will meet cruel enemies, but then at lea...
It is, however, a most astonishing but incontestable fact, that the history of the evolution of man as yet constitutes no part of general education. Indeed, our so-called 'educated classes' are to this day in total ignorance of the most important cir...
The difference between educated people and uneducated people is that educated people have been opened up to the notion that you can disagree without fighting; whereas uneducated people, in conversation, seek to always agree--everybody agrees and agre...
Instead of educating the I.Q., we need to educate the H.Q., the heart quotient, the matters of truth, love, justice, and compassion. There are two ways to do this. One is through the read life experiences and the other is through literature. Literatu...
Jefferson also founded the first intentionally secularized university in America. His vision for the University of Virginia was for education finally free from traditional Christian dogma. He had a disdain for the influence that institutional Christi...
Maybe one day there will finally be an education for electronic music.
I give the children education.
People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills.
...children are at heart selfish, and reasonably so, for they are programmed for survival.
I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program.
An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.
Our commitment to coaches will be realized via TeamCarew, a grassroots marketing program that will provide them with insight and tools to teach the art and science of hitting.
America has the best athletic programs. Even when the Soviet Union existed, that was Mickey Mouse compared to the U.S.
Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.
Briefly, to program it requires an absolute understanding of how all 65,536 processors are interconnected.
We're not programming to conservatives. We're just not eliminating their point of view.
A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.
In 2009, I went to Cannes with a short film in the Kodak emerging program at the American Pavilion.
