Top 1200 Academic Education Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Arts education must be part of our education solution because it works for all students.

Free education for all children in public schools... Combination of education with industrial production

Female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential to give them a solid education which might enable them, when become mothers, to educate their own daughters, and even to direct the course for sons, should their fathers be.

Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.

It is education which can liberate you and I believe girls should get the best education.

First, this law - the National Defense Education Act - ended years and years of debate about one controversial question: 'Shall the Federal Government, with all its massive resources, get directly involved in aiding American education?' The answer this law gave was a loud 'Yes!' - and thus we paved the way for a new era of support for education in America. This law, in fact, helped make possible more than 50 new education laws passed in my administration.

It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity.

Nations will march towards the apex of their greatness at the same pace as their education. Nations will soar if their education soars; they will regress if it regresses. Nations will fall and sink in darkness if education is corrupted or completely abandoned

If there is no education, there will be poverty. I believe in it strongly and feel that through education we can address the issue effectively.

I think people don't talk enough about education and what we need to do in our public education system.

Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast.

The public education movement has also been an anti-Christian movement...We can change education in America if you put Christian principles in and Christian pedagogy in. In three years, you would totally revolutionize education in America.

Going to our school is an education in itself which is not to be confused with actually getting an education.

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.

I think it's the most important thing, education. Because without education it's difficult to face life.

Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness.

I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has behind him agesof education, dominion, civilization, and Christianity, if he stands opposed to the passage of a national education bill, whose purpose is to secure education to the children of those who were born under the shadow of institutions which made it a crime to read.

I never hear anything about education. Education - I guess it's just not sexy enough. And everybody claims to love their children and our children are the most important thing, but if that's the case, how come we never hear more about education as an election issue?

I'm a beneficiary of an extraordinary education, and I believe that no matter where you live, the access to education is key to social mobility.

One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It appears that most persons who have achieved fame and success in the world of ideas are cynical about formal education. These people are a select few, who often achieved success in spite of their education, or even without it. As has been said, the clever largely educate themselves, those less able aren't sufficiently clever or imaginative to benefit much from education.

I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.

In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.

The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as we assess the value of land or of shares in the stock-exchange market. We want to provide only such education as would enable the student to earn more. We hardly give any thought to the improvement of the character of the educated. The girls, we say, do not have to earn; so why should they be educated? As long as such ideas persist there is no hope of our ever knowing the true value of education.

Education is not for profit. If you're not in education for profit, it's not going to be a fair critique for education.

Parents who've not had an education themselves find it hard to explain to their children what a decent education involves, and I completely understand that. Parents themselves need to be educated by schools about what sort of education they should expect for their children. I do think there's a heavy responsibility of the school.

The aim of militants such as Boko Haram, whose very name means 'Western education is a sin,' is to sow hatred and enmity between Muslim and Christian communities, which have co-existed largely peacefully for generations. Education, in particular the education of women, is a threat to Boko Haram's goals.

Key to success for the education of young African girls is building a model that works with communities, schools, and national Ministries of Education to build a system of protection and support around girls, ensuring that they receive the education that is their right. Financial support is provided alongside a social support system.

If the poor boy cannot come to education, education must go to him

America needs the best education system in the world. We have it in higher education. We do not have it in general education for all of our people - the K-12 education. Other nations are far, far outdoing the United States in that area. We still have the lead in research, but once again, other nations are pouring more into research also. We still have a lead, but to me it's just very, very important that we keep that lead in basic research.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

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

Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.

Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher education outstrips any in the world. Look where the rest of the world goes for higher education, for graduate degrees. They come here.

For the academic the rhetorical sense of superiority through the possession of knowledge is essential for facing the daily grind, turning again to the otherwise boring article, braving the students who, fresh as each class may be, will still ask the same questions year after year. Psychological survival is not achieved without effort, and the environment must be managed, knocked about with one's elbows until it takes a shape comfortable to one's sense of self. This is not selfishness, for in reshaping the environment the academic is also reinvigorating the educational process.

One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.

There are so many people around the world in need of high-quality education and really starving for education.

Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.

The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.

I think an education is beneficial, but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other question.

Education is about remembering stuff and I could never remember anything, so I didn't get an education.

My hope and wish is that one day, formal education will pay attention to what I call 'education of the heart'.

Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide

Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

As a physician, we are taught that learning and education never stop - they are lifelong. I think education comes in various forms: formal, informal, and most importantly, experiential. All of this defines who we are and gives us if you will our abilities to function as leaders. I believe all of those pieces constitute formal education - it is invaluable to who we are and how well we perform.

It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their vocational education often has to be learned all over again after they leave school and college. On the other hand, they have open quick minds and if their education has little sharp positive value, it has not the stultifying effects of a more rigid training.

Education is the key to perpetuation of the [god] virus for the Taliban, Baptist or Catholic. If the virus cannot control public education, it will seek to divert resources from public coffers to fundamentalist school funding. From the madrassa schools of Pakistan to the Christian push for school vouchers in the United States and the religious home school movement, religions seek to control education or to control the resources for education.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live. Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

I want to make as much of a contribution as I can, to Harvard, to higher education and hopefully, to education around the world.

The best way would be education and kids and all that stuff and then education and working education comes through. Then I started a music school and the music school now teaches kids to play the violin and the viola.

Education is the most important thing and a lot of kids in south London get distracted from education.

I learned that education and sport are the bedrock for any person, but education comes first, no doubt about it.

From education by the Church to education by Germanic value is a step of several generations.

It is precisely because education is the road to equality and citizenship, that it has been made more elusive for Negroes than many other rights. The walling off of Negroes from equal education is part of the historical design to submerge him in second class status. Therefore, as Negroes have struggled to be free they have had to fight for the opportunity for a decent education.

Education, the free flow of information, is key for our personal and societal growth. It all comes back to education.

Women while in college ought to have the broadest possible education. This college education should be the same as men's, not only because there is but one best education, but because men's and women's effectiveness and happiness and the welfare of the generation to come after them will be vastly increased if their college education has given them the same intellectual training and the same scholarly and moral ideals.

By creating a self-policing, self-reporting, sort of self-monitoring culture through law, through statute, and imposing that on the academic world, I think not only are we losing a significant measure of freedom in academic traditions and in our civil society, but we're actually making ourselves less competitive with every other country around the world that does not do that. Because that's where researchers are going to go and that's where academics are going to go. And ultimately, that's where breakthroughs are going to occur.

Education no longer stops on graduation day. We must demand excellence at every level of education.

Education reform has as its main purpose to make sure that the education delivered is of quality.

Sex education should be 'relationship education', focusing on how to achieve long-term commitment.