Top 1200 General Education Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Each pursues his private interest and only his private interest; and thereby serves the private interests of all, the general interest, without willing it or knowing it. The real point is not that each individual's pursuit of his private interest promotes the totality of private interests, the general interest. One could just as well deduce from this abstract phrase that each individual reciprocally blocks the assertion of the others' interests, so that, instead of a general affirmation, this war of all against all produces a general negation.

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

My hope and wish is that one day, formal education will pay attention to what I call 'education of the heart'.

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.

We need better public education and more realistic education.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but they have no power of abstraction, no general standard of taste, or scale of opinion. They see their objects always near, and never in the horizon. Hence arises that egotism which has been remarked as the characteristic of self-taught men.

I think it's the most important thing, education. Because without education it's difficult to face life.

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

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.

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.

I'm a beneficiary of an extraordinary education, and I believe that no matter where you live, the access to education is key to social mobility.

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

America is destined to be peopled by one nation, speaking one language, professing one general system of religious and political principles, and accustomed to one general tenor of social usages and customs.

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.

There are so many people around the world in need of high-quality education and really starving for education.

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

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

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

I want to make as much of a contribution as I can, to Harvard, to higher education and hopefully, to education around the world.

Without wishing to damp the ardor of curiosity or influence the freedom of inquiry, I will hazard a prediction that, after the most industrious and impartial researchers, the longest liver of you all will find no principles, institutions or systems of education more fit in general to be transmitted to your posterity than those you have received from your ancestors.

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

Education, the free flow of information, is key for our personal and societal growth. It all comes back to education.

In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.

If there is no education, there will be poverty. I believe in it strongly and feel that through education we can address the issue effectively.

Education is the most important thing and a lot of kids in south London get distracted from education.

I have indeed two great measures at heart, without which no republic can maintain itself in strength: 1. That of general education, to enable every man to judge for himself what will secure or endanger his freedom. 2. To divide every county into hundreds, of such size that all the children of each will be within reach of a central school in it.

Education no longer stops on graduation day. We must demand excellence at every level of education.

I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education.

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.

Our [Republicans'] object is to avoid having stupid candidates who can't win general elections, who are undisciplined, can't raise money, aren't putting together the support necessary to win a general election campaign, because this money is too difficult to raise to be spending it on behalf of candidates who have little chance of winning in a general election.

The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

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

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.

I think education and intelligence (are) important, but not art. Not artistic education.

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.

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.

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

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

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

The fourth amendment specifically was designed to prohibit general warrants. How could collecting every piece of phone data be perceived as anything but a general warrant?

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

No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousand shares of General Motors or General Electric.

Sex education should be 'relationship education', focusing on how to achieve long-term commitment.

Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

I think people don't talk enough about education and what we need to do in our public education system.

The point we are making is that the general global messages have been communicated, about the politics of South Africa, about the economy in general, all of these general questions. The rest of the world understands these things and are saying, let's now come to the specific things so that even we, as big corporate chiefs from around the world, can assist in these areas, which you have decided are your priority areas.

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.

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.

Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide

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

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

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.

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

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.

I never hear anything about education. Education - I guess it's just not sexy enough. And everybody claims to love their children and our children are the most important thing, but if that's the case, how come we never hear more about education as an election issue?

I think an education is beneficial, but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other question.

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.

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

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