Quotes of: Formal-education Keyword

All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.

Emma Goldman

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Ezra Pound

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

An extended school day gives administrators the ability to ensure children get a well-rounded education.

Geoffrey Canada

I believe that we all need to do charitable work. It should be taken seriously in the area of education, as someone from the industry.

Goldie Hawn

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

George Orwell

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

G. M. Trevelyan

I think to be a good actor you need either a good experience of life or education, or both.

Honeysuckle Weeks

Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

Ilya Ehrenburg

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.

Jacques Barzun

Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.

Jerome Bruner

Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America when what black America needs isn't a leader, it is education.

Jim Brown

You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.

Josephine Baker

To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.

John Dickey

You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.

Jeff Foxworthy

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

James A. Garfield

My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents.

Jennifer Garner

Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all.

Julia Gillard

I don't come from a lot of money and wasn't going to get an academic scholarship, so the only way to afford an education was to allow the military to supplement it.

Jon Huertas

We must revamp K-12 education law to ensure Washington does not stand in the way of meaningful reforms.

John Kline

My musical education started in the limelight, because I found myself surrounded by real musicians, but after my career had taken off.

John Lurie