Top 1200 English Education Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart.

I love the musicality of English. French sounds flat. In English, you can play with pitch.

I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own.

Don't forget I'm not English. English people maybe don't behave like we Europeans do.

I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.

I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.

I loved English and I tell kids that without English I wouldn't be able to rap.

I do think we have collectively begun to conflate the institutions of education for education itself. Education is an individual's pursuit of understanding and has a lot of implications for that person, for the kind of person that they are.

Because English is the universal language. No matter where you come from, if you sing in English, you can cross over to the world.

You can't be an American if you don't speak English. Our public schools should be mandated to teach all children in English.

I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.

For decades, British governments - including the Blair-Brown government in which I was an education minister - have done a good job of enhancing higher education but paid too little attention to apprenticeships and technical education.

When the medium of the film is English, even the illiterates also should speak in proper English.

An English man does not travel to see English men.

It (Arsenal) is an English club but not an English success. It's probably a greater reflection of youngsters from France and elsewhere in Europe.

If people are persuaded of the need for education and the need to invest in education, they're also persuaded of the need not to waste that investment by having low-quality education but to have high-quality education.

A lot of country making films in English, but in Japan we are very shy to speak English.

A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.

I always thought of the English landscape as being English gardens.

'Friends' was an education in intelligent comedic banter; in intelligent vernacular. It was an education in scene study. It was an education in group dynamic. I came out of there with a master's degree in comedy.

We have to make education a priority, but all this debate about education and testing is almost beside the point. We only spend a fraction of the money on education that we spend on arms buildups. Under a Kucinich administration, education becomes one of the top domestic priorities. We put money into it. We cause the government to be vitally involved in it. And we make sure our children have the love of knowledge.

I think the one worthy cause I can identify myself with is valuing education. Because I believe education is something that cannot be taken away from you. You can have money, you can have fame, but in the end, it can be taken from you. But education will always be there to help you.

I'm used to shifting languages because my father used to speak to us, to my brother and I, he used to speak in English. He wanted us to be quite fluent in English, especially when he was trying to correct our behavior; he would do that in English.

My parents grew up in poor families where little English was spoken, they both went to college and became teachers. They believed that anything was possible with hard work, and they particularly stressed the importance of education. They instilled that same belief in my sister and me.

We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto.

We do not merely give a religious education because that would seem to imply the possibility of some other education, a secular education, for example. But we hold that all education is divine, that every good gift of knowledge and insight comes from above, that the Lord the Holy Spirit is the supreme educator of mankind, and that the culmination of all education (which may at the same time be reached by a little child) is that personal knowledge of and intimacy with God in which our being finds its fullest perfection.

You see, we'll never be able to compete in the 21st century unless we have an education system that doesn't quit on children, an education system that raises standards, an education that makes sure there's excellence in every classroom.

Of course we desire education and we think it is a good thing, but you don't have to have education in order to know that you want certain fundamental rights, you have got aspirations, you have got acclaims. It has nothing to do with education whatsoever.

we must go on fighting for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content of education. We have to make sure that sectarian schooling does not convert education into a prison, rather than being a passport to the wide world.

I went to an English school and was brought up in English. So I don't feel Czech.

It's not just that people with no education have worse health. People with a bit of education at somewhat better, with a lot of education it's even better. And with even more education it's better still.

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

I have always felt most comfortable singing in English, perhaps because I think in English.

There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.

I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term.

The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping.

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.

I've often been asked, 'aren't you going to sing in English?' So I'm very glad to have a song in English.

I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general.

I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.

You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.

One of my favorite tricks was taking a page and having the first student translate it from English into whatever language he or she was working on, and the next one would translate it back into English and then into the foreign language, and we'd go around the room and compare the two English versions at the end, and it would be amazing how much survived.

The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping

It was so simple that a flash of astonishment that felt like pain shot through her head. Education! That was it! It was education that made the difference! Education would pull them ut of the grame and dirt.

Think about Elizabethan English, where the entire English language behaved pretty much like molten lava, like a volcano in mid-eruption. Modern Hebrew has some things in common with Elizabethan English. It is being reshaped and it's expanding very rapidly in various directions.

I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist.

That typically English characteristic for which there is no English name -esprit de corps.

Well, I couldn't speak English before I went to Belfast. So I learned English with a Northern Irish accent.

MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.

Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old English, and how that developed from Germanic, and that developed from what's called Proto-Indo-European, a source system that nobody speaks, so you have to try to reconstruct it.

I chose English-speaking and English-thinking people to take decisions for Hindi programmes. It was a mistake.

I learned English from American pros. That's why I speak so bad. I call it PGA English.

English, no longer an English language, now grows from many roots.

Whoa, lady, I only speak two languages, English and bad English.

English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.

My mother emigrated from Russia as a young child. She couldn't speak English and had no education. Her father died at age 32, leaving the family destitute. An uncle, who worked as a carpenter, supported the family.

Education enables people and societies to be what they can be. It is education that allows us to see that we are in this for the long haul, and it is education that will give us the tools we need to build a better future.

Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.

The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.

American English is essentially English after having been wiped off with a dirty sponge.