That tertiary education is under a sustained assault by a political and - it often seems - social consensus that equates all education with training for increased productivity, only makes academe a still more promising environment for a contrarian.
Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.
It is very important to spend two to three hours each day to self-educate yourself on different areas of life, because school education alone is far from being enough.
Quality education is something which influence our decision making, which empowers our conscience and governs our insight, but, positively.
If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.
It’s been said that only the educated are free, but I contend. Only those who are educated with TRUTH can be inherently free. Otherwise, you are simply indoctrinated with error.
One cannot get rid of a good education, nor, unfortunately, of a bad one, which often is such because one has not wanted to defray the expenses of a good one.
Even as a small child, I wondered why the Dominican nuns who educated me were subservient to the Jesuit priests who educated my brothers.
I feel that for the first time in a long time, educated Pakistanis are returning to their country to start up educational projects, to start up businesses, so instead of the brain-drain that happened in the 1950s and 1960s, the country is growing and...
Griffin Mill: Can we talk about something other than Hollywood for a change? We're educated people.
Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools.
In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, was the most significant mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.
We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.
Women in Africa, generally a lot needs to be done for women. Women are not being educated, not only in Angola but my trip to Nigeria, one point I would make over and over again was that women need to be educated too.
I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal.
I'm a liberal Democrat, and I state that proudly.
The beauty of learning is that it liberates us from poverty.
Inner contentment liberates the soul
With one man, there was a freedom and liberation. That was with Michael Hutchence, my partner in life.
Guilt. It comes naturally to me as a Jew and a Liberal.
You can't get past the liberal press with a bucket of ink.
