Top 1200 Classical Education Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.

The public education landscape is enriched by having many options - neighborhood public schools, magnet schools, community schools, schools that focus on career and technical education, and even charter schools.

Deep down, classical Romantic music is what I love: Brahms, Tchaikovsky, the Romantics.

There's no reason why one need not look at the content of education just as one is expanding the availability of school, because it doesn't cost more money to get them [a] better education. It requires better textbooks, it requires a vision, it requires a determination, but it's not very expensive to do that anyway.

Let's stop telling people from modest backgrounds that their education is capped at a certain level because of where they grew up. In fact I can attest to the fact that all this attitude does is put people off wanting to test the waters and apply, or push themselves towards higher education at all.

I would say 'Home' is a lot richer and deeper than my earlier classical.

My concern is the holistic development of society. No one should go back, everyone must move forward. Enough time has been spent going backwards; now let us pledge to stride ahead, whether it's in education, health, agriculture or education of our daughters. This Government belongs to the poor. It is to support the destitute.

There are a lot of classical musicians in my family, so I grew up with that being kind of normal.

Education is among the most important problems we face because it's the ultimate 'gateway' problem. That is, it drives virtually every global problem that we face as a species. But there's a flip-side: if we can fix education, then we'll dramatically improve the other problems, too.

Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

There's always been a slight twinge of some classical elements in our music.

Music enhances the education of our children by helping them to make connections and broadening the depth with which they think and feel. If we are to hope for a society of culturally literate people, music must be a vital part of our children's education.

Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.

We still need to learn how to talk about food and education, because they haven't been talked about together, really. Education depends on our good health. It depends on our understanding of the environment and somehow we got those separate.

An early attempt at education choice was charter schools. These were meant to attract the best and brightest students and provide them a level of education they often could not find in their local school districts. The problem is that, of the thousands of charter schools, many are outright failures.

I would just go insane in a public school. I don't have enough clothes.You have to be Heidi Klum to go to public school now. It's crazy. I feel sorry for these kids, not to mention that the new Secretary Of Education, Betsy DeVos, is against education.

The education of the present race of females is not very favorable to domestic happiness. For my own part, I call education, not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular system of character; that which tends to form a friend, a companion, and a wife.

I studied dance for about 15 years, various disciplines, with classical ballet as my primary.

Copland was the first important American classical composer to go to work for Hollywood.

Education is the key. But it's the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don't have it.

My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.

I listen to a lot of non-classical music at home, but I don't get many opportunities to sing it.

Usually people like experimental music which is usually not the case in Carnatic classical concerts.

The perfect aphorism would achieve classical balance and then immediately upset it.

The classical ballet world is so exclusive and small, and a lot of people don't know about it.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done-men who are creative, inventive, and discovers. The second goal of education is to form minds which can be critical, can verify, and not accept everything they are offered.

Pell grants are critical tools for lower- and middle-income students to access higher education, and by expanding access to year-round courses, we can help non-traditional students complete their education sooner, allowing them to start their careers and pay off their loans.

I was brought up by my mother, and she is my guru in classical singing. I have trained primarily under her.

If there is education, there will be everything in life. Government can make roads, hospitals and also construct school buildings. But your homes can brighten up only if your children are educated. I am confident that if we focus on education, our society will certainly develop.

The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one's whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself.

I fully support U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his Global Education First Initiative and the work of U.N. Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown and the respectful president of the U.N. General Assembly Vuk Jeremic. I thank them for the leadership they continue to give.

What takes its place is very dry education. And the tools that actually can teach you - singing and playing, learning how to participate with other people, spiritual richness - are replaced with a big emphasis on how to memorize things. That's such an incomplete education. Survival of the fittest used to mean being bigger and stronger.

Do you wish to learn? There are books that can teach you anything, and there is no cheaper form of education, nor one whose effects are more lasting. My education came from books, and they have been my companions by many campfires, in bunkhouses, ships' forecastles, in hotels and on planes. No matter where you find me, I am never far from a book.

Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety.

I would get rid of the Department of Education. I would get rid of the state departments of education and let the local people control the schools.

Teachers teach and students educate. Students are the only true educators. Historically, every other method of education has failed. Education occurs when students get excited about learning and apply themselves; students do this when they experience great teachers.

I trained in London as a classical actor, but you've no idea what way your career will go.

Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.

I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.

I was raised with a lot of classical music. I loved ballet. I was a bun head for 10 years.

I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.

I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.

Western classical music is participative. Look at the number of people who are involved in a symphony.

Classical dance is so pure and beautiful you don't need to add anything to its authenticity or beauty.

A sharp difference should exist between general education and specialized knowledge. As particularly today the latter threatens more and more to sink into the service of pure Mammon, general education, at least in its more ideal attitude, must be retained as a counterweight.

The more subsidized it is, the less free it is. What is known as 'free education' is the least free of all, for it is a state-owned institution; it is socialized education - just like socialized medicine or the socialized post office - and cannot possibly be separated from political control.

A perfect example of the new republic's urge to drape itself with the togas of classical respectability.

Yes, I tried to change the classical style in a way that people who don't understand it can enjoy.

I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'

To control the future requires the control of education and of the child. Hence, for Christians to tolerate statist education, or to allow their children to be trained thereby, means to renounce power in society, to renounce their children, and to deny Christ's Lordship over all of life.

If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.

Education - much like law or medicine - should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunately, too many policies, even those that are well-intentioned, come from the top, leaving out those closest to the classroom, who have the greatest insight into how to provide a high-quality education for all students.

I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.

Classical dancing has always been the stepping stone of every dancer's life.

Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.

Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.

We need university education in Fiji and must seriously think about starting post secondary education in Fiji. In the near future we hope to see a university college in Fiji and ultimately a fully fledged university

The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.