Top 1200 Classical Education Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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.

I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.

I grew up playing classical violin and a lot of Bach and Mozart and the things that Einstein loved.

People wanted to do science outside of classical institutions like universities or big corporations, so we embraced it.

The classical art of spin bowling, how you should bowl in Test match cricket, is disappearing.

Against classical philosophy: thinking about eternity or the immensity of the universe does not lessen my unhappiness.

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.

I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful.

I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.

I think we should see whether we are wise trying to educate everybody to a high standard the way we are trying to do now. There has to be a high level of education so everybody is literate, but whether university education is necessary for everyone is open to question.

Regarding African education in this country, there was a time when the government took no interest whatsoever in African education. It was the churches, that part of civil society, which bought land, built schools, and employed and paid teachers. People like myself, right from grade eight up to university, I was in missionary schools.

Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow.

Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom. Thus one can say: The freer, the more religious; and the more education, the less religion.

I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.

I'm all for reforming our higher education system, in the 21st century, to have the skills you need for a middle-class job, you need higher education of some form or fashion. It may not be a four-year degree. The problem is he just wants to pour that additional money into the broken, existing system.

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

Early childhood development has proved to be very beneficial and very cost-effective in societies where this is been tried. So let's not confine ourselves to primary education. Let's think of early childhood development and education as a whole.

Capacity without education is deplorable, and education without capacity is thrown away.

Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s.

If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.

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.

It'll help you be imaginative if you listen to classical music. It helps you understand dynamics and how important they are to create an environment.

Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.

I fell in love with funk music through my father - Funkadelic - as well as soul and classical early on.

My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'.

I express myself using my classical skills to write more complex forms of popular music.

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.'

I like all good music - rock, pop, country, classical - and when you sit down to write, it all comes out.

I taught myself until I was about 16. And then I studied classical guitar with some teachers.

Alchemy is one of the good quote-unquote south-Asian experiences in that it has a wide variety of classical to experimental music.

In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor.

One of the struggles that I have with classical music is the way one thinks about a recapitulation. There's always this idea of themes, and I have trouble with that.

In any piece of rhetorical discourse, one rhetorical term overcomes another rhetorical term only by being nearer to the term which stands ultimate. There is some ground for calling a rhetorical education necessarily aristocratic education in that the rhetorician has to deal with an aristocracy of notions.

Actually, I try different kinds of exercise. I do functional training, Zumba, classical dance and walking.

A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.

When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process.

...even though I was getting better education at home than any of the kids in Toyah, I'd need to go to finishing school when I was thirteen, both to acquire social graces and to earn a diploma. Because in this world, Dad said, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you go it.

My father was born in the year 1900 in South Carolina, and he grew up at a time where being an African-American child in the American South was to be deprived of access to anything close to a reasonable education. He only had three years of formal education, but he was self-taught. He read two newspapers a day.

You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.

When you're 14, 15, the most important thing in your life should be education, because that's what's going to set you up for success as an adult. So if coming out now will hinder your education, maybe we take some time to think about whether the time is right or not. Those are my concern.

It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.

I finished my university studies with classical music while being in a successful metal band, but that was not an easy task at all.

I think that people are entitled to be amused, and entertained. If they see deviations from this classical norm, it's probably good for their mental health.

When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.

But in the Indian film industry, from the moment a child is born, he is taught music, he is taken for classical classes.

In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement.

I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

When I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music.

I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together.

With my classical training and coming from a metal band, producers didn't know what to expect. I like to shock people, though.

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.

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.

I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates.

I adore the classical pieces of our culture. The Greek and Roman are still inside and everywhere; it's impossible to disconnect.

I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things.

That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?

Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

I played piano for a lot of my childhood and stupidly quit. I wish I hadn't - I could have been a great classical pianist!