It's always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units.
I've been blessed because every single role I've done has been an educated person. I've never done the stereotypical Latina, even though I have an accent - I've always been able to play educated people. That's a good thing!
As more men become more educated and women get educated, the value system has to be more enhanced and the respect for human dignity and human life is made better.
Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources.
There is a reason you keep hearing about the power of educating girls in the developing world. It's a reason so simple that you will probably view it with suspicion, as I once did. It's this: educating girls works. Really works.
It's important to appreciate the impact of knowledge in our lives, and that of our parents in getting us educated. However in today's world, if someone have not been to school, that means he must have been educated.
Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.
A well educated man always has a kind word to say about the place where he spends the night.
Education, like neurosis, begins at home.
If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering.
Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.
A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly
If you wish to make anything grow, you must understand it, and understand it in a very real sense. 'Green fingers' are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart.
I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society. [p.92]
There are two kinds of people in this world. People who are part of what happens and people who sit back and watch other people make it happen.
Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.
I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.
My father has said a hundred times, and I have paid attention, that it's stupid to let money be the reason you don't do something.
In order to benefit fully from the education provided in the Theocratic Ministry School, you, the student, must make a personal effort.
Education is the best gift you can ever give to your child. Educate your child wisely and smartly.
