Top 1200 Liberal Education Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I decided that I didn't want to spend my time in a liberal arts college.

To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.

Regarding African education in this country, there was a time when the government took no interest whatsoever in African education. It was the churches, that part of civil society, which bought land, built schools, and employed and paid teachers. People like myself, right from grade eight up to university, I was in missionary schools.

One area of liberal phenomenon I support is female bi-sexuality.

I think we should see whether we are wise trying to educate everybody to a high standard the way we are trying to do now. There has to be a high level of education so everybody is literate, but whether university education is necessary for everyone is open to question.

President-elect [Donald] Trump has made a provocative choice for secretary of education. Betsy DeVos comes from a wealthy Michigan family. She is an advocate for school choice. That phrase means, in essence, directing public education money to charter schools, private schools or parochial schools.

Nobody has a right now to say that the Hindus are not liberal to a fault.

...even though I was getting better education at home than any of the kids in Toyah, I'd need to go to finishing school when I was thirteen, both to acquire social graces and to earn a diploma. Because in this world, Dad said, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you go it.

I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his money.

The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.

I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

Children who have lost parents to HIV/AIDS are not only just as deserving of an education as any other children, but they may need that education even more. Being part of a school environment will prepare them for the future, while helping to remove the stigma and discrimination unfortunately associated with AIDS.

Jews are the most liberal, scrappy, civil-rightsy people there are.

I don't mind going into a liberal lion's den. That's where you test yourself.

My character and my behavior is not for politics. I say what I think. I'm too liberal.

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

In a functioning liberal democracy, we cannot normalize political violence.

A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.

Liberal Democrats will not rest until we have stopped Brexit.

When you're 14, 15, the most important thing in your life should be education, because that's what's going to set you up for success as an adult. So if coming out now will hinder your education, maybe we take some time to think about whether the time is right or not. Those are my concern.

Unity among like-minded liberal democracies is paramount.

It (baseball) has no clock, no ties and no Liberal intrusions into the organized progression.

Everyone deserves the best start in life, which is what UNICEF is working to provide the world's most vulnerable children. Education is essential to a child's development. I hope that as an Ambassador I can encourage people to join UNICEF's mission to make education a reality for children throughout the world.

I think if we give kids a break in education, we would have fewer crimes being committed. If we keep them on track, they know that they have options. It's important for me because, you know, my life would've been different had I not had the education that I had.

It is not a nature cure, a system of faith healing, or a physical culture, or a medical treatment, or a semi-occult philosophy. As to what it is, Dewey's brief but striking description appeals most and has the least chance of being proved incorrect: 'It the Alexander Technique bears the same relation to education that education itself bears to all other human activities.'

The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this end alone would become only obscurantist. A Christian education must primarily teach people to be able to think in Christian categories.

Liberal democracy is in regression all over the world, and it's a dangerous thing.

In any piece of rhetorical discourse, one rhetorical term overcomes another rhetorical term only by being nearer to the term which stands ultimate. There is some ground for calling a rhetorical education necessarily aristocratic education in that the rhetorician has to deal with an aristocracy of notions.

Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom. Thus one can say: The freer, the more religious; and the more education, the less religion.

The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money.

Capacity without education is deplorable, and education without capacity is thrown away.

I've always been very liberal when it comes to people thinking for themselves.

The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.

My dad grew up in southern California and was a raging liberal.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

Barack Obama basically ran as a liberal suburban Republican.

It is the liberal philosophy, not the conservative one, that views humans as selfish automatons.

What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.

The greatest betrayal of the liberal left in this country is by the Labour party.

The great achievement of liberal Protestantism was to make God boring.

Filmmakers and artists always thrive during more liberal times.

You can be a liberal and accept same-sex marriage and all that, but that's your business.

I'm basically a libertarian, and I'm a conservative on economic matters, and I'm a social liberal.

I don't necessarily want a higher education, I want a wider education. I want to know everything and experience everything.

How would you like your child in kindergarten through 12th grade attending classes with kids who can't read, write, speak or understand English -- or American education values? Furthermore, how would you feel if those students felt zero investment in education, in English and the American way? How would you like your child's education dumbed down to that of a classroom from the Third World? Guess what? Today, if you're a parent of a child in thousands of classrooms across America, that's what's happening to your children with your tax dollars.

If you ask who are the customers of education, the customers of education are the society at large, the employers who hire people, things like that. But ultimately I think the customers are the parents. Not even the students but the parents. The problem that we have in this country is that the customers went away. The customers stopped paying attention to their schools, for the most part.

My grandmother is very liberal, but... she still has her opinions.

The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.

Early childhood development has proved to be very beneficial and very cost-effective in societies where this is been tried. So let's not confine ourselves to primary education. Let's think of early childhood development and education as a whole.

I have yet to met a liberal who can withstand the attrition of prolonged discussion of the unessentials.

I come from a single-parent family and my Mum is super liberal.

It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.

Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is.

I promoted myself as a fusion ticket. I was running as a Republican liberal.

Prenatal education can only be an unconscious result of what the parents, particularly the mother, do. If, until the child is born, the mother acts in such a way that she expresses what is morally and intellectually correct, then what she accomplishes in her own continuing education will transfer to the child.

My father was born in the year 1900 in South Carolina, and he grew up at a time where being an African-American child in the American South was to be deprived of access to anything close to a reasonable education. He only had three years of formal education, but he was self-taught. He read two newspapers a day.

Citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic

I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.

LIBERAL, n. A man with his mind open at both ends.