Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability.
Higher educating has so many challenges, and private higher education has a special challenge of ever rising tuition costs.
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.
Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature.
Curiosity is very important I think, and I think too much of education, starting with childhood education, is either designed to kill curiosity or it works out that way anyway.
Life is filled with endless opportunities. You must search for the opportunities. Seize every opportunity and make it great.
There are two things that create opportunities. One is being involved with something that makes money, and the other is winning awards. And the reason that winning the awards creates the opportunities is because it gives the people who are selling th...
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
I want to make as much of a contribution as I can, to Harvard, to higher education and hopefully, to education around the world.
Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.
The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.
Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.
Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.
There is always a strong need for self-education during and after school education. Education is a never-ending process of intellectual growth.
What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yours...
Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal (...). There is a tendency (...) for certain people to use this phrase out of context, to satisfy all conditions. The most ridiculous example I can think of is that the people who run public e...
Opportunities come but do not linger.
When I look at a child, I see a living, breathing person, made in God's image, for whom God has a plan. As parent educators, we need to embrace a new notion of learning...we need to engage the hearten order to effectively educate the child. Our visio...
Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.
I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other. I wanted my students to know that the accumulation of knowledge, while fascinating in itself, is not sufficie...
