Top 999 Education Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all.

Studies have proven that early childhood education returns to society as much as $12 for every dollar invested. Our goal is to identify the most important development opportunities for children five years and younger, providing insight to transform early childhood education from a social policy issue into an economic imperative.

I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.

Essentially, social education is moral education, and moral education is preparation for citizenship... When Jefferson and others advocated public education, it was to prepare for citizenship in a new, constitutional, democratic society.

Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the most important thing in their lives. They must find the right balance.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

A Princeton education sets you up for life: you have learned how to learn, and at a time when technology has changed everything, you will constantly have to learn.

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

All of the things an arts education gives a young person enhance leadership skills and help raise grades.

He who laughs most, learns best.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just 'virtual reality.'

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

I wouldn't be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had.

I was a Senate spouse for many, many years. I kept my own career. I was teaching and Joe was doing politics. I realized when we were elected vice president that I had a platform and I knew I was not going to waste my platform. It was going to focus women and girls' education.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

We need the middle class to feel more confident about its prospects and about its future. We need to cut down on this anxiety that sees some people succeeding and the majority struggling - having to make choices between paying for their kids' education or saving for their own retirement.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.

Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.

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

Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.

Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in turn rely on the education of our people.

The unit of effectiveness of education is not the individual but the group. An individual's moral values are primarily important for society as they contribute to a moral social climate, not as they induce particular pieces of behavior.

Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.

Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting education!

The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion.

As technology increasingly takes over knowledge-based work, the cognitive skills that are central to today's education systems will remain important; but behavioral and non-cognitive skills necessary for collaboration, innovation, and problem solving will become essential as well.

By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good-paying job.

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.

What is basically just an IQ score has roots in education, socioeconomic status, genetics, and environmental factors. Looking at any one of these roots doesn't give you a full picture of the tree, but it does tell you that a tree is there.

I was looking for a new challenge and got an interest in trying to make a difference for families. You become more aware of how important families are. They are the key institution in our culture. The reason I got into politics was to try to make a difference for that key institution, whether it was tax policy, education policy, or whatever.

The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance.

Big data in education has huge potential to improve learning materials.

Public education is an investment in our future.

The cognitive skills prized by the American educational establishment and measured by achievement tests are only part of what is required for success in life. Character skills are equally important determinants of wages, education, health and many other significant aspects of flourishing lives.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation.

As an actor and as a performer, I've felt that the education system has really helped me in a lot of ways... there was always a teacher or a professor along the way that kept pushing me to the next stage.

Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

Besides taking jobs from American workers, illegal immigration creates huge economic burdens on our health care system, our education system, our criminal justice system, our environment, our infrastructure and our public safety.

At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.

For every dollar we have given to athletics, we have given about 27 to higher education or medical research.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a march from violence to peace.

I'm opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education, or public health, period.

The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.

The Internet is the first technology since the printing press which could lower the cost of a great education and, in doing so, make that cost-benefit analysis much easier for most students. It could allow American schools to service twice as many students as they do now, and in ways that are both effective and cost-effective.

Nothing is more important, certainly during these times of artificial intelligence, than our public education. And as it continues to grow and evolve, I think you and I know this is going to be critical that we are constantly training and retraining and creating these next-generation jobs.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

I had a very, very interesting childhood, but, oh my, education was the primary focus in our family.

The passage of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 was a substantial victory for community colleges.