Quotes of: Formal-education Keyword

If you want a good education, go to private schools. If you can't afford it, tough luck. You can go to the public school.

Paul LePage

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Robert Green Ingersoll

I believe the American people are entitled to some straight talk when it comes to higher education funding.

Ric Keller

You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education.

Robert Vaughn

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.

Steve Irwin

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.

Thomas Huxley

Let's make sure that we are working for age-appropriate sex education in our school system.

Wendy Davis

There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.

will.i.am

As a sculptor sculpts a statue, an educator educates our future generation. Beauty depends on the creator.

Debasish Mridha

We no longer live in a world that is neatly divided between rich and well-educated countries, and poor and badly-educated ones.

Andreas Schleicher

Probably one of those sinister organisations that lurked behind the mask of amusing acronym, such as BUM, for example - the Bermondsey Union of Minstrels. Or WILLY, the Whitechapel Institution for Long-Legged Yodellers. It could be any one of a hundr...

The Educated Ape and Other Wonders of the Worlds

Though we loved school, we hadn't realized how important education was until the Taliban tried to stop us. Going to school, reading and doing our homework wasn't just a way of passing time, it was our future.

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

The question is not, -- how much does the youth know? when he has finished his education -- but how much does he care? and about how many orders of things does he care? In fact, how large is the room in which he finds his feet set? and, therefore, ho...

School Education: Developing A Curriculum

Is he well educated?" "Yes, I think so, as far as he's gone," I answered. "Of course he will go on being educated every day of his life, same as father. He says it is all rot about 'finishing' your education. You never do. You learn more important th...

Laddie: A True Blue Story

Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their respo...

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

How have people come to be taken in by The Phenomenon of Man? We must not underestimate the size of the market for works of this kind [pseudoscience/'woo'], for philosophy-fiction. Just as compulsory primary education created a market catered for by ...

Peter Medawar

So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has the largest stock of them, ready to meet the largest possib...

William James

Life’s too short to do anything but enjoy it daily.

The Comfort of Little Things: An Educator's Guide to Second Chances

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.

The Education of Henry Adams

Philosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

The Education of Henry Adams

The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.

The Education of Henry Adams