Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination. "

Related Quotes:

" No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections. "

Winston Churchill

" The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. "

" No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education. "

" Everything that makes man's life worthwhile - family, work, education, a place to rear one's children and a place to rest one's head - all this depends on the decisions of government; all can be swept away by a government which does not heed the demands of its people, and I mean all of its people. "

" Education and work are the levers to uplift a people. "

W. E. B. Du Bois

" The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand. "

" Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education. "

" To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. "

" Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students. "

" Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up. "

" Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion. "

" I never let schooling interfere with my education. "

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

" The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state. "

" I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy. "

" Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. "

Albert Einstein

" 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. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" Without tact you can learn nothing. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" A high school diploma will no longer be sufficient. But that post secondary education does not have to be a four-year university or a four-year college. It can be career technical education, vocational education, community college. "

Raja Krishnamoorthi

" With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.' "

" Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty. "

" Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. "

John W. Gardner

" I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers. "

Arnold Schwarzenegger

" Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved. "

" I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture. "

" I have always respected education, which is why I actually went back secretly and taught school for eight years. "

" It is always in season for old men to learn. "

" On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education. "

" The right to a quality education is, I believe, the perfect path to bridge the gap between different cultures and to reconcile various civilizations. Without such a right, the values of liberty, justice and equality will have no meaning. Ignorance is by far the biggest danger and threat to humankind. "

Moza bint Nasser

" Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation. "