Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: education

A captain of the Navy ought to be a man of strong and well connected sense, with a tolerable good education, a gentleman, as well as a seaman both in theory and practice.

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

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

There are two equalizers in life: the Internet and education.

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.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.

During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.

To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education.

Books, the children of the brain.

Economic prosperity and quality education for our children are inexorably linked.

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that's being pushed in a manner in schools that's completely reprehensible. It's not education, in my estimation. It's a form of indoctrination.

I've known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that's so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn't you take university courses throughout your entire life?

You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

Man is what he reads.

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Education is everything. It's for everyone. We all need to be educated.

In a world that places a growing premium on social skills, education systems need to do much better at fostering those skills systematically across the school curriculum.

My countrymen, I have given proofs that I am one most anxious for liberties for our country, and I am still desirous of them. But I place as a prior condition the education of the people, that by means of instruction and industry our country may have an individuality of its own and make itself worthy of these liberties.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

Economic growth driven by large-scale infrastructure investments without equitable provision of education will leave hundreds of millions of people behind, exacerbating inequality, disillusion, and instability.

There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women's stories. God, the BBC's practically run by women.

I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor.

Elimination of child labour and access to education are like two sides of one coin. One cannot be achieved without the other.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

A good education gives you confidence to stick up your hand for anything - whether it is the job you want, or the bloke. And the more you stick up your hand, the better your chances are that you will get what you want.

I had a very, very interesting childhood, but, oh my, education was the primary focus in our family.

Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.

If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist, get a degree in chemistry. Do you want to do DNA work? Get a degree in microbiology. And do well. Study hard and go to graduate school.

For some reason, our culture is one that preaches that furthering your education is something that is always worth the price tag, and the truth is, that simply isn't the case.

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

Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not.

The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.

It's not easy for the average family to ensure that their child receives a quality education. And the federal government is not making it any easier.

I never stop reading. I read everything, and I read every day. If you never read anything, be curious. Curiosity is the true foundation of education, reading things that we've factually already agreed on, and I love reading books. With that said, it's more important that you ask the question 'why.'

Parents matter, buildings count, curriculum choices, materials, resources - all these things are important in a top-class education. But, in the end, it comes down to the teachers.

Higher education should provide an environment to test new ideas, debate theories, encounter challenging information, and figure out what one believes.

We need to encourage innovative ideas that give parents better alternatives to prepare children for higher education and for the jobs of the future.

I am proud to be part of a community that only projects love and education and the support of one another.

Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.

The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.