Education Quotes - Page 109

I'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up.

As an empowerment right, education is the primary vehicle by which economically and socially marginalised adults and children can lift themselves out of poverty, and obtain the means to participate fully in their communities.

I have always believed and promoted the fact that education and access to the knowledge society involves lifelong learning.

The degree to which the arts are included in our educational curriculum is totally inadequate. The arts are just as important as math and science in an education and just as important as any other endeavour in our lives.

Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate.

Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury; the time spent engaged in it is not time that could be better spent in more formal educational pursuits. Play is a necessity.

But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

The legislature are a little more difficult to educate than the governor is.

If I memorize enough stuff, I can get a good grade.

A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero,--the wise, the good, or the great man,--very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light.

I'm a big believer in education, period.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.

Very few charter schools are being created in some of the best school districts in the state. If you're an educational innovator, that isn't where the greatest need is.

The aim of education is growth: the aim of growth is more growth

The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively in subsequent experiences.

The origin of thinking is some perplexity, confusion or doubt.

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.

The education here intended in not merely that of the children of the rich and noble, but of every rank and class of people, down to the lowest and the poorest. It is not too much to say that schools for the education of all should be placed at convenient distances, and maintained at the public expense.

What we do not understand we do not possess.

I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.

In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and the medical student learned enough of them. Now, however, chemistry and botany are become sciences of themselves, incapable of comprehension by a hasty survey, and each demanding the study of a whole life, yet we expect the medical student to understand them. He who is prudent, accordingly declines all distracting claims upon his time, and limits himself to a single branch and becomes expert in one thing.

The toughest thing about homework is getting mom and pop to agree on the same answer.

I would urge that the yeast of education is the idea of excellence, and the idea of excellence comprises as many forms as there are individuals, each of whom develops his own image of excellence. The school must have as one of its principal functions the nurturing of images of excellence.