Top 1200 Classical Education Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Being a classical musician I'm fascinated with how my colleagues, not just singers, but every musician finds ways to express something else or something new or the same ol', same ol' in classical music. I'm always in dialogue with other musicians at least orally, if I can't be with them and a lot of dead musicians as well. I've learned a lot from dead people on recordings.

I spent most of my career in education and technology. I worked at Kaplan, and I was one of the first people trying to bring innovation into for-profit education.

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

When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands.

When [Jimmy] Carter did quote them, he quoted them in what I believe were misapplications, such as arguing for the creation of a federal Department of Education. In one case, Carter quoted [Tomas] Jefferson's and [George] Washington's appreciation of education and then, in a leap, implied that they would be delighted that he was creating a giant federal bureaucracy for education.

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.

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

Giving education away for free is a really good idea, but it can't be the future of education. There has to be a business model around it that actually works.

Education is a danger... At best an education which produces useful coolies for us is admissible. Every educated person is a future enemy.

I think if there's ever been a time we need music more, it's now. For our kids, it teaches you to take time, to listen, to work together, to listen to other people, and to use your brain. That's why classical music doesn't work when you throw it at people in a subway platform while they're rushing to work. Classical music is something that needs to be contemplated, you have to be completely present with an active mind that's working. It's not background music.

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

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.

In the field of higher ed, many have asked whether (or when) digital education will replace on-campus education. I wonder the opposite. Cinema never replaced theatre. TV didn't replace radio. I wonder how different digital education will be from classrooms, and where it will lead us.

Good teachers are to education what education is to all other professions—the indispensable element, the sunlight and oxygen, the foundation on which everything else is built.

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

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.

I left school at 15 feeling fairly useless and not really up to scratch in my education. And I still suffer sometimes from that lack of education.

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

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

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

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

No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.

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

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

Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.

Education is very important. I think I understand education.

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.

The objective of education should be impressed on the children's minds. The academic education of today is shallow and useless because it has no value orientation.

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

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.

You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all.

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!

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.

In fact, NSF was the leading successful efforts to improve U.S. math and science education long before the Department of Education was even created.

I made education the highest priority of my campaign - actually education and jobs - and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it.

Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, 'cause I'm very smart.

Education is the most powerful tool for everything but certainly to create opportunities for yourself, and I know that not everyone has the privilege of an education like here in America.

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.

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

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

If you read the Freedom Charter carefully, you will find that - the clause that refers to education, and it says education must be free 'on merit.'

In In Pakistan, when we were stopped from going to school, at that time I realized that education ... Is the power for women, and that's why the terrorists are afraid of education.

Education - lifelong education for everyone - from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers - is indeed an excellent investment for individuals and society as a whole.

The education of attention would be an education par excellence

I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library.

Online education that leaves almost everybody behind except for highly motivated students, to me, can't be a viable path to education.

Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.

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 belongs pre-eminently to the church ... neutral or lay schools from which religion is excluded are contrary to the fundamental principles of education.

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.

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.

When we tell girls that we expect them to pursue education and excel in education, we are changing the narrative and are opening the door to the leaders of our future.

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.

Education keeps the key of life; and liberal education insures the first conditions of freedom,--namely, adequate knowledge and accustomed thought.