Quotes of: Formal-education Keyword

To take that second chance, we need to notice where we are and be open to the possibility of growing.

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

Knowledge is a social construct, a consensus among the members of a community of knowledgeable peers.

Collaborative Learning: Higher Education, Interdependence, and the Authority of Knowledge

It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.

Democracy and Education

What a slacker. Just because daddy paid for his college education, he thinks he can avoid dying for his country." -- Willie "Drafted

Drafted

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

The Education of Henry Adams

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