Quotes of: Modern-education Keyword

Now, I know it's a widespread assumption in the West that as countries modernize, they also westernize. This is an illusion. It's an assumption that modernity is a product simply of competition, markets and technology. It is not. It is also shaped eq...

Martin Jacques

I was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history. I was the only one who was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history.

Scott Ritter

Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the...

Christopher Dawson

True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controllin...

Ralph Adams Cram

All the media of modern consciousness—from the printing press to radio and the movies—were used just as readily by authoritarian reactionaries, and then by modern totalitarians, to reduce liberty and enforce conformity as they ever were by libert...

Adam Gopnik

His sisters -- my aunts -- did not go to school at all, just like millions of girls in my country. Education had been a great gift for him. He believed that lack of education was the root of all of Pakistan's problems. Ignorance allowed politicians t...

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

When it comes to the education of our young, this privilege should only be given to those whose visions are solely in the uplifting benefit of the child. There is no room for the ego in the education of children! Children should not be looked after, ...

C. JoyBell C.

It is necessary to have “watchers” at hand who will bear witness to the values of Tradition in ever more uncompromising and firm ways, as the anti-traditional forces grow in strength. Even though these values cannot be achieved, it does not mean ...

Revolt Against the Modern World

This is an extremely difficult matter for modern readers of the gospels to grasp, but Luke never meant for his story about Jesus's birth at Bethlehem to be understood as historical fact. Luke would have had no idea what we in the modern world even me...

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

The primitive tribes permitted far less individual freedom than does modern society. Ancient wars were committed with far less moral justification than modern ones. A technology that produces debris can find, and is finding, ways of disposing of it w...

Robert M. Pirsig

Can you not see, […] that fairy tales in their essence are quite solid and straightforward; but that this everlasting fiction about modern life is in its nature essentially incredible? Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is...

G.K. Chesterton

Library stacks from this perspective are not a repository; they are a crowd.

Collaborative Learning: Higher Education, Interdependence, and the Authority of Knowledge

It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.

Education, Free & Compulsory

This is the crepe. This is the cider. This is how we live and eat.

Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef

We don't have education, we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool.

Bob Marley - Legend

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

Camille Paglia

The more you know, the less you need.

Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman

Still reading but learning a lot about true education and the process of guiding our children in their educational pursuits.

Oliver DeMille

Education reform doesn't come cheap. But the price of ignorance is far, far greater

Rania Al Abdullah

Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.

May Sarton

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Mark Twain