Quotes of: Modern-education Keyword

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development, an essential complement to investments in roads, dams, clinics and factories. Literacy is a...

Kofi Annan

Educators are spiritual beings—we are on earth to make a difference.

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

[T]he great end of education . . . is to persuade and to inspire the sincere love of virtue.

Observations upon Liberal Education, in All Its Branches

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and no...

John W. Gardner

I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which...

Richard Cobden

Access to high-quality education is way too limited. The United States has the world's most admirable higher education system, and yet it is very restrictive. It's so hard to get into. I never got into it as a student.

Sebastian Thrun

I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored people of the South stand most in need of, is elementary and industrial. They should be instructed for the work to be done.

Timothy Thomas Fortune

while modernity is not Christianity, modernity is the product of a Christian civilization. Lately the defects of modernity have been made plain to us while its virtues have been taken for granted.

The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization

This is the Modern Man. The man who seeks himself without ever seeking, because he does not want to find; The man who does not hesitate to criticize the other, although he behaves in the same way;

The Modern Man: A philosophical divagation about the evil banality of daily acts

Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.

Mahesh Bhupathi

Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.

The Great War and Modern Memory

The first key to leadership is self-control.

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

The early giants of modern dance - Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis - barely left traces of their art.

Robert Gottlieb

Art and life are seen to be rich and mutually enriching

The Reach of Modern Art: A Concise History

A Harvey Nicks chick with throwaway morals and a trustfund appetite.

Slide, a Modern Satire on the Excess of Greed

The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life.

A Modern Utopia

when science has killed god, science will be god.

The Red Pill: A Modern Tao Te Ching

In these modern times, the only sensible thing to be is nonsensical.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Even in woo woo circles, shamanism is the fringe of the fringe.

Teen Spirit Guide to Modern Shamanism

I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.

Robert Scheer

The fact is that modern life has deprived us of life's one great luxury: time.

Laurie Colwin