Quotes of: Modern-education Keyword

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the librar...

Ray Bradbury

The heart of the difference between cheap-grace doctrines of guilt-free existence and the Christian gospel is this: Modern chauvinism desperately avoids the message of guilt by treating it as a regrettable symptom. Christianity listens to the message...

Guilt Free

Born of antimodern sentiment, the summer camp was ultimately a modern phenomenon, a "therapeutic space" as much dependent on the city, the factory, and "progress" to define its parameters as on that intangible but much lauded entity called nature. In...

The Nurture of Nature: Childhood, Antimodernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-55

According to analyses conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 100 grams of fresh tomato today has 30 percent less vitamin C, 30 percent less thiamin, 19 percent less niacin, and 62 percent less calcium than it did in the 1960s. But the moder...

Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit

If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite - the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous and singulary generic modern culture that takes for granted an impoverished environment - is a source of dismay. There is, indeed, a fire burning...

The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World

Modern nationalism swept Europe alongside the flourishing of industrialisation. Across the continent, poets and intellectuals cultivated and often heavily modified vernacular languages to be bearers of 19th century modernity. These guardians of langu...

Michael Gordin

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

Erich Fromm

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The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.

Paul Karl Feyerabend

My parents were marvelously educated people.

Stephen Fry

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Theodore Roosevelt

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.

Chris Van Hollen

Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.

Charles B. Rangel

Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.

Ezekiel Emanuel

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.

Earl Warren

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

Frederick William Robertson

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Economic prosperity and quality education for our children are inexorably linked.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

The Internet will save higher education, but it may kill your alma mater.

John Katzman

I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education.

Michael J. Fox

You can't continue to have higher education tuition grow at a multiple of the rate of inflation.

Mitt Romney