Quotes of: Education-reform Keyword

In Paris and London he had seen nothing to make a return to life worth while; in Washington he saw plenty of reasons for staying dead.

The Education of Henry Adams

The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression.

The Education of Henry Adams

Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at. [p.93]

The Educated Imagination

At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void.

The Education of the Stoic

The failure of so many marriages is due to their getting married out of animal passion and not out of love.

Fundamentals of Gnostic Education: Learn How to Think, Not What to Think

Be careful what you get good at doin', cuz you'll be doin' it for the rest of your life.

Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef

We can do better in higher education. And it is more than just technology. It's also an attitude on the part of faculty. We need to think through how we can produce a better quality product at less cost.

Roy Romer

Nothing in this 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. P...

Calvin Coolidge

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis.

The Screen Education Reader: Cinema, Television, Culture

education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.

The King's English: A Guide to Modern Usage

It seemed to me then that to have published a book - any kind of book - would be the greatest possible happiness I could ask from life.

Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties

If you really have talent, you know, you'll go on writing - whatever people say to you.

Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties

The day people will start using their learner's instincts instead of the survival instincts in the education, our society will no longer be a place where education kills your knowledge.

A Leap Within

I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of black people everywhere.

Paris in April

Perhaps we need to separate youth from education. Education lasts forever. Youth is the time for exploration, maturation, socialization.

What Would Google Do?

There's always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the 'best' courses to take. My advice would always be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground.

David Puttnam

I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work.

Julian Bond

You've got to have a good public education system so small-business owners, when they locate to an area, are confident their kids are getting the best education possible. I feel strongly about local control in school districts.

Jon Tester

We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of edu...

Nigel Short

Having a college degree does not make you educated. Always learning new things is what makes you educated.

Single Dad Laughing

The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below.

Plato