Quotes of: Higher-education Keyword

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Walter Scott

When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.

Yoko Ono

The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.

Catharine Beecher

All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed.

William Wiley

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

Colin Powell

So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching.

Phillip E. Johnson

Educational opportunities have supported the rise of the African middle class, the professional cadre of young people who are now willing and able to contribute to Africa's future prosperity.

Mo Ibrahim

A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational, and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.

Steve Berry

No man is truly educated unless he knows where he came from, why he is here, and where he can expect to go in the next life.

Ezra Taft Benson

Our educational system should make the Filipino fit not just for whatever jobs happen to be on offer today, but also for whatever economic challenge life will throw in their way.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

In today's world, learning has become the key to economic prosperity, social cohesion and personal fulfillment. We can no longer afford to educate the few to think, and the many to do.

David Blunkett

We need to have an educational system that's able to embrace all sorts of minds, and where a student doesn't have to fit into a certain mold of learning.

James Hillman

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.

Leo Buscaglia

As a club, we have an educational purpose: to give back to those people who love Arsenal so that they learn moral values from our game and how we behave.

Arsene Wenger

Education is the master key to greatness; without it, a child would be faced with the darkness of a future that's full of uncertainties.

Edmond Mbiaka

I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.

Foster Friess

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not....Genius will not....Education will not....Persistence and determination are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge

The choices of roles I made had to do with educating and entertaining. And as a result I found myself working only every two or three years.

Cicely Tyson

[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).

Howard Nemerov

The essence of education is not to get a certificate or job but, to be a holistically developed person who can positively impact the society.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

John Banville