The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.
We know from hard research that educated populations have lower growth rates, are more peaceful, and add to the global economy.
Of all the American educational system's problems, none is more severe than the academic year beginning before Labor Day.
The District of Columbia is an extreme example of disconnect between financial input and educational outcome. Unfortunately, extreme is not the same as abnormal.
The world, in terms of choices available to educated, ambitious workers and entrepreneurs, is way bigger than just the United States, Japan and Europe.
Is it possible that Jesus, unlike 98 percent of his fellow Jews, was literate and educated? Yes, it's possible.
An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.
The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.
It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support systems in place to help our youth become successful adults.
The establishment of a National Methamphetamine Prevention Week will significantly increase awareness of meth and educate the public on effective ways to help prevent its use.
If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.
It's quite fashionable to say that the educational system is broken. It's not broken. It's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't need it anymore.
Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.
For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
The moment you inject information, education, and an entrepreneurial spark in a community, it gets empowered enough to inspire, build, and uplift itself.
You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart.
'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.
Education these days is making youths suffer like mental patients, but no one has anything to say about it because there is no other option to be given.
I want to be part of the storytelling that educates people and awakens a sense of compassion in other people of the kind of people they don't encounter in their daily lives very frequently.
I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.
Clever is when one is crafty enough to mistake your imagination for intelligence. Smart is when one assumes they are too educated to notice the difference.
