Quotes of: Secondary-education Keyword

Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.

Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

Culture and collars had gone together, to him, and he had been deceived into believing that college educations and mastery were the same things.

Martin Eden

Respect is not the equivalent to 'liking' a student or teacher; it is the ability to have a high regard for the role of another. In order to receive respect, we should demonstrate it first...

Memoirs of an Educarer: An Inspiration for Education

One never knows when one is going to get ambushed into learning something.

Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education

If you've had the right kind of education, it's amazing how many things you can find to feel guilty about.

McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland

If I simply do my best, I cannot complain even if I am taken to hell.

Nurtured by Love: The Classic Approach to Talent Education

If a musician wants to become a fine artist, he must first become a finer person.

Nurtured by Love: The Classic Approach to Talent Education

That's the trouble with cookbooks. Like sex education and nuclear physics, they are founded on an illusion. They bespeak order, but they end in tears.

Nobody's Perfect: Writings from The New Yorker

It was a bland, tranquilized, life-adjusted, group-integrated sort of face -- the face turned out in thousands of copies every year by the educational production lines on Terra.

Little Fuzzy

I said I *liked* being half-educated; you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ignorant.

My Family and Other Animals

He [Omar Khayyam] is an atheist, but knows how to interpret in orthodox style the most difficult passages of the Koran; for every educated man is a theologian and faith is not a requisite.

Selected Non-Fictions

There was a day when writers actually read," he grumbles. "They could quote Keats and Socrates. Now anyone with a keyboard and a fifth-grade education can call themselves a writer.

Poe

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

Pride and Prejudice

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil - a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.

Pride and Prejudice

The essentials," I answered, "are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work; to educate and benefit their community, their families, and themselves; and to contribute to the fulfillment of the Destiny.

Parable of the Sower

Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

The best education we can ever receive is from the University of Adversity. It's the only institute of learning that rewards us when we fail.

A Walk with Prudence

The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important.

The Wasted Vigil

Are we a nation that educates the world's best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and indus...

Barack Obama

A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks what's best fo...

Cornel West

If bringing up the next generation is important, why aren't they the best qualified, the best paid? Why aren't we as concerned about their career progression as we are about those who work in the education or health services?

Estelle Morris