Top 1200 Culture And Education Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

The key to culture is it's a framework for making decisions. And if it's baked into your culture, people learn how to make decisions across that culture without you ever saying anything. You never have to really do anything except watch and promote and move people around.

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

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.

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

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.

We need better public education and more realistic education.

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

This is more in regards to celebrities. What we've got to understand is that we are the influencers of the hip-hop culture, the black culture. We are the way out, you feel what I'm sayin'? As far as who we look to and where we get stuff from - hip-hop culture is influencing the world, really, but especially the black communities.

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

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

The work of God can only be carried on by the power of God. The key is not $, organization, cleverness or education. No matter the society or culture, the city or town, God has never lacked the power to work through available people to glorify his name.

Here the oppression of women is very subtle. If we take female circumcision, the excision of the clitoris, it is done physically in Egypt. But here it is done psychologically and by education. So even if women have the clitoris, the clitoris was banned; it was removed by Freudian theory and by the mainstream culture.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Many books condemn 'secular' culture, just as many books advocate (consciously or unconsciously) accommodating ourselves to culture. Brett has written something much different: a biblically informed and culturally savvy approach to consuming culture in a God-honoring, community-building, and mission-advancing way.

We're Americans. It's a culture. We should defend that culture, and we should reinforce that culture.

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.

Sanity is a matter of culture and convention. If it's a crazy culture you live in, then you have to be irrational to want to conform. A completely rational person would recognize that the culture was crazy and refuse to conform. But by not conforming, he is the one who would be judged crazy by that particular society.

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.

Apollo without Dionysus may indeed be a well-informed, good citizen but he's a dull fellow. He may even be 'cultured,' in the sense one often gets from traditionalist writings in education. . . . But without Dionysus he will never make and remake a culture.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

If it were possible adequately to present the whole of a culture, stressing every aspect exactly as appears in the culture itself, no single detail would appear bizarre or strange or arbitrary to the reader, but rather the details would all appear natural and reasonable as they do to the natives who have lived all their lives within the culture.

The end of knowledge is wisdom The end of culture is perfection The end of wisdom is freedom The end of education is character. And character consists of eagerness to renounce one's selfish greed.

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

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

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.

My childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word turbulent. But it was a great time to grow up, the '70s and '80s in Brooklyn, East Flatbush. It was culturally diverse: You had Italian culture, American culture, the Caribbean West Indian culture, the Hasidic Jewish culture. Everything was kind of like right there in your face. A lot of violence, you know, especially toward the '80s the neighborhood got really violent, but it made me who I am, it made me strong.

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.

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

One culture I find fascinating to juxtapose against American culture is the culture of Germany. They've gone through a long process through their art, poetry, public discourse, their politics, of owning the fact of their complicity in what happened in World War II. It's still a topic of everyday conversation in Germany.

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.

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.

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

Education is very important. I think I understand education.

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.

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

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

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

The education of attention would be an education par excellence

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

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.

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

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.

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