Quotes of: Modern-education Keyword

If you do not have persistence then no amount of education, talent or genius can make up for it.

Stephen Richards

I don't think the Gallup Poll technique is going to be very helpful in determining the goals of our educational system.

Sargent Shriver

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

The purpose of education is to save young people from the paralyzing effects of wealth and poverty. (more or less verbatim quote)

Kurt Hahn

The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.

Karl Marx

My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary.

Lynn Johnston

Our ability to compete for the jobs of tomorrow depends, above all, on our capacity to educate children today.

Michael Bennet

Education in the form of knowledge and wisdom are only as powerful as how we use them in our daily lives.

Matthew Donnelly

Without mathematics, your world becomes foggy! For a clear vision, you need to be educated in the Temple of Mathematics!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Education delivered by a strict councellor, and recieved with great pains would never brighten the future of any student.

Michael Bassey Johnson

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

Samuel Butler

Investments in immunization yield a rate of return on a par with educating our children - and higher than nearly any other development intervention.

Seth Berkley

Well, killing me makes no sense because Georgia already has a Western-educated political class.

Mikheil Saakashvili

What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express the emotions in beauty and the mind with accuracy and strength.

Annie Besant

We do take seriously our responsibility, and growing ability, to educate people about healthy eating and giving them greater access to nourishing and affordable fresh food.

John Mackey

But, neither of these educational scenarios worked for us, so when we started a family, we wanted a different school for our children. And the other founders felt the same way.

Daniel Greenberg

Here is a fundamental conflict in educated society: We are not supposed to value beauty so highly, and yet who can defend against its sheer power to move, its rhetorical force?

Russell Smith

I would say everything in our life in the next 25 years is going to be tied into the Internet, and it's going to be the place for communications, for education, for conducting business and everything.

Bob Parsons

I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man.

Chick Corea

Politics also means educating people. It's important to speak openly with our fellow Greeks, to tell them what our problems are and that we have to change something.

George Papandreou

In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't change in a week or a fortnight - was the new educational system.

John Hume