Top 1200 Academic Education Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

I'm certainly very conservative when it comes to education. We're getting rid of Common Core. We're going to have education at a local level.

Consciousness-Based Education is education that is in most ways exactly like regular education, but with the added technique of Transcendental Meditation. Transcendental Meditation, or TM as it's often referred to, allows students to dive in and experience the unbounded ocean of consciousness within each of us, the big treasury, the field within each of us that is the base of all matter and all mind. It's been found that transcending and experiencing that unbounded, eternal level of life does wonders for education, and for human beings.

I've benefited enormously from an arts education and a music education in New York. When they cut the programs for funding, I was devastated.

I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.

We need better public education and more realistic education.

Education in the West, particularly higher education in America, has lost the ability to see the universe from very far away.

We should not value education as a means to prosperity, but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education, unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition, by forcing the student to stand back from it.

The education of attention would be an education par excellence

The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.

Education is a beautiful, liberating thing, but I think that tying in education and status, and the need to do well at every cost, is toxic.

The theory of modern education is that you need a general education before you specialize. And I think to some extent, before you're going to be a great stock picker, you need some general education.

The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.

My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child.

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.

In view of the importance of education, Punjab government is making all-out efforts for the promotion of education throughout the province.

The National Education Association is the al-Qaida of education.

Education is very important. I think I understand education.

Education equals choices. I have been blessed with the choice to be anything I ever wanted to be, and I truly owe my happiness to my family and education.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn't be here today if it weren't for my education.

All the education programmes provided by our foundations are in pursuit of a common vision to upgrade education standards and quality of life.

All school districts receive funds from the federal government, through the Department of Education, to support anti-drug education efforts.

Certainly if I were to think in terms of a field that would have required a different mode of education, I think I would have leaned in the direction of being a therapist. And without the education, or a different kind of education, I think my first choice would be a landscape architect. I love to garden.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

I think that when we talk about education I was also blessed to talk with my dear brother Arne Duncan. I had never met him, the secretary of Education. We had a wonderful talk. And I had told him quite explicitly education is a right, it's not a race to the top.

The online education space, especially in higher education, is ripe for disruption.

When it comes to sending my children to college, I want the best education. It's the only thing I'm really leaving them - a good education.

The number one way that we can address these long-term challenges of poverty, of education, is to invest in early childhood education.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

In essence, the education department argues that the quality of the education children receive is irrelevant, as long as someone stands in front of the class.

Good education is not regeneration. Education may chain up men's lusts, but cannot change their hearts.

From my decades of experience in education, I know the sooner young people have access to a quality education, the more successful they are.

No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.

The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education — or that the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth.

If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

Education! Is it education to teach the young that their chances of happiness depend on being richer than their neighbors? Yet that is what it all tends to. Get on! - be successful!

The proper education of a man decides his welfare, but the interests of a whole family are secured by the correct education of a woman.

Vigorous Scout games are the best form of physical education because most of them bring in moral education.

It is not education, but education of a certain kind, that will serve us. And the current model of western, urban-centered, school-based, education, which is so often more focused on turning children into efficient corporate units rather than curious and open-minded adults, will only lead us further down the wrong path.

A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.

Thinking that education is something different from discipling our children is a sure sign that we have been 'educated' by the state. Education is discipleship.

Growing up in Sweden, musical education is something really special. There are music schools everywhere, and the education is very advanced.

The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves.

I think education and intelligence (are) important, but not art. Not artistic education.

The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

The French talk about education, the education of their children. They don't talk about raising kids. They talk about education. And that has nothing to do with school. It's this kind of broad description of how you raise children and what you teach them.

I believe education is the key. As an activist and a child of the developing world, I witnessed education's power to transform lives.

First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect.

Women's education has a much greater impact [on], for example, fertility. Men's education, if our studies are correct, ha[s] almost no impact on fertility. Women's do. So, by the way, as a man, it's not to the glory of men specifically that it's women's education that reduces child mortality.

Education should be a right, not a privilege. We need a revolution in the way that the United States funds higher education.

The breakdown of Plato's philosophy is made apparent in the fact that he could not trust to gradual improvements in education to bring about a better society which should then improve education, and so on indefinitely. Correct education could not come into existence until an ideal state existed, and after that education would be devoted simply to its conservation. For the existence of this state he was obliged to trust to some happy accident by which philosophic wisdom should happen to coincide with possession of ruling power in the state.

All democracies demand common public education because nothing makes people so much alike as the same education.

You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already begun. . . .

Education truly can change a person’s story, it gave me everything. Whatever happens, get an #? education .

My formal education as an extension to my college degree in journalism was the time that I spent working with the student newspaper. I would argue that my greatest education occurred by working for the student newspaper. It wasn't necessarily the classroom work that made my formal education special. It was the idea that I had the opportunity to practice it before I went into the real world.

Education is still, in spite of private education, a state matter.

A PHD is not the end of education. Education exists even among the bees who feed their queen only with the purest.

Many faculty retreated into academic specializations and an arcane language that made them irrelevant to the task of defending the university as a public good, except for in some cases a very small audience. This has become more and more clear in the last few years as academics have become so insular, often unwilling or unable to defend the university as a public good, in spite of the widespread attacks on academic freedom, the role of the university as a democratic public sphere, and the increasing reduction of knowledge to a saleable commodity, and students to customers.

It is not the job of the Department of Education to maximize profits for the government at the cost of squeezing students who are struggling to get an education.

It is doubtful whether our present system of popular education does not retard independent or self thinking as much as it promotes it. All genuine education is self-education. It will incite the individual to think for himself, by rethinking what the race's great thinkers have already thought for him, thus enabling him to go ahead under his own mental steam.