Top 1200 Board Of Education Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

All states have to be on board with the common objective of checking supply of various types of drugs.

As CEOs or board members, women are still underrepresented, and that gap is actually growing.

You have to be involved during midterm elections, you have to care about what happens at a school board level.

Every manager feels a responsibility to his board of directors and the public and the players.

We cut up lemons on a chop board because they are good for our voices.

I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.

I came from a religious, homeschooled background; I had conventional views across the board.

You get given an opportunity, and that is the jumping board; from there you have to build your own path.

Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education.

Education makes us the human beings we are. It has major impacts on economic development, on social equity, gender equity. In all kinds of ways, our lives are transformed by education and security. Even if it had not one iota of effect [on] security, it would still remain in my judgment the biggest priority in the world.

What is haunting is that people fallen off the train threaten those who remain on board.

We have to have a school board that's actually gonna be able to function and that has true parent representatives on it.

No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife.

The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this end alone would become only obscurantist. A Christian education must primarily teach people to be able to think in Christian categories.

Our great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. ... We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children-to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavour to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts.

I play board games with my family like Scrabble, Connect Four and Ludo.

In the steel-and-glass society that we live in, the value system would be that the lawyer, with the Mercedes and the fine suit and the Ivy League education, was more valued than the minority without the education. But on the island, the rules are changed. It's the person who can make a fire or who can make friends. A kind human soul is valued.

My education commitment is simple. I believe that every child is unique. Im going to work as hard as I know how, and Im going to ask each of you to help me to offer all Tennessee children the education they need to energize their God-given talents to take them as far as they can go.

If you ask who are the customers of education, the customers of education are the society at large, the employers who hire people, things like that. But ultimately I think the customers are the parents. Not even the students but the parents. The problem that we have in this country is that the customers went away. The customers stopped paying attention to their schools, for the most part.

I should mention that I am a member of the board of directors of Dimensional Fund Advisors.

I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.

Children who have lost parents to HIV/AIDS are not only just as deserving of an education as any other children, but they may need that education even more. Being part of a school environment will prepare them for the future, while helping to remove the stigma and discrimination unfortunately associated with AIDS.

When the inventor of the drawing board messed things up, what did he go back to?

My family was never happy with me. I could just say that across the board.

I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.

I love all board games, actually, apart from backgammon. I can never remember the rules.

Whenever you see a board up with "Trespassers will be prosecuted," trespass at once.

The potential of fire on board an aircraft is among the most serious issues in aviation.

Hey, any time you're throwing bodies over board it is to save yourself.

It is not a nature cure, a system of faith healing, or a physical culture, or a medical treatment, or a semi-occult philosophy. As to what it is, Dewey's brief but striking description appeals most and has the least chance of being proved incorrect: 'It the Alexander Technique bears the same relation to education that education itself bears to all other human activities.'

You look across the board at comedy quiz shows, and they are mainly hosted by men.

There are several multiple-witnessed events where humans have been taken on board spacecraft.

We are moving in exactly the wrong direction in higher education. Forty years ago, tuition in some of the great American public universities and colleges was virtually free. Today, the cost is unaffordable for many working class families. Higher education must be a right for all - not just wealthy families.

I love to think big and with the right people on board I know I can make anything.

It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.

I think if we give kids a break in education, we would have fewer crimes being committed. If we keep them on track, they know that they have options. It's important for me because, you know, my life would've been different had I not had the education that I had.

We went to school board meetings, we went to Little League games, and we did everything to be normal.

The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner.

Prenatal education can only be an unconscious result of what the parents, particularly the mother, do. If, until the child is born, the mother acts in such a way that she expresses what is morally and intellectually correct, then what she accomplishes in her own continuing education will transfer to the child.

Haters...are all failures. It's 100% across the board. No one who is truly brilliant at anything is a hater.

I don't necessarily want a higher education, I want a wider education. I want to know everything and experience everything.

Everyone deserves the best start in life, which is what UNICEF is working to provide the world's most vulnerable children. Education is essential to a child's development. I hope that as an Ambassador I can encourage people to join UNICEF's mission to make education a reality for children throughout the world.

How would you like your child in kindergarten through 12th grade attending classes with kids who can't read, write, speak or understand English -- or American education values? Furthermore, how would you feel if those students felt zero investment in education, in English and the American way? How would you like your child's education dumbed down to that of a classroom from the Third World? Guess what? Today, if you're a parent of a child in thousands of classrooms across America, that's what's happening to your children with your tax dollars.

Real samadhi is off the game board, friends. It is not something you are even aware of.

Formation of alignments for governments are done by our central parliamentary board and not locally.

I wasn't getting invited to any board meetings. I had to kick the door down.

My barometer for choosing a board member is this: regardless of the business, can I make a lifelong friend?

I think education is something that is very important no matter what you are doing. It makes you feel secure, independent, and helps you build confidence in yourself. It grooms your whole personality. So if it starts from the basic level; if the basic education that a girl and a boy receive is the same, I think a lot will change.

We need quantitative assessments of the success of education. We need certification and qualifications both for teachers and for pupils. It is not a choice between quantity and quality, between access and excellence. Both of these will happen together if people really do believe in the importance of education to change lives.

There's never been a moment where I sat down at my drawing board and thought, 'I'm a pro!'

Well, the first thing I had to do was to read a lot. First of all, about education... and looking at education from the Middle Ages right through to the 20th Century. The second major area was country life in the 19th Century, which I don't know much about these days.

My fans go right across the board. They come to my concerts in family groups.

The intellect is no longer the chairman of the board - it is an employee. It becomes a tool in the service of the heart.

Never schedule a board meeting on Wednesday because it kills two weekends.

What good is telling America's children that they will have equal opportunity for education if they don't have the skills that will even get them to the point of benefiting from education, because they didn't have the child care, the health care that would enable them to grow as strong and constructive human beings?

Anything that has to do with Disney and Pixar, I am on board with. That is where my heart and family are. So when they call, I jump.

Cable cars are fun - everyone gets on board and becomes a rhesus monkey.

President-elect [Donald] Trump has made a provocative choice for secretary of education. Betsy DeVos comes from a wealthy Michigan family. She is an advocate for school choice. That phrase means, in essence, directing public education money to charter schools, private schools or parochial schools.

I can assure you I have never made decisions on my mother's behalf on her foundation's board.

I grew up in a different era. People were definitely afraid of HIV back then, but education also helped change the way we thought about the disease. That education helped my generation make smarter choices about the way we protected ourselves.