Education Quotes - Page 5

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.

I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The ideal of an all-sided education for youth had always been close to my heart. I saw clearly the arid results of ordinary instruction, aimed only at the development of body and intellect.

My father was a schoolteacher, and so I had the advantage of both western educational instruction in the school, as well as what you might call the process of imbibing the traditional processes of education instruction around me.

I don't know why so many artists talk about the mainstream's problems from the fringe. I think, unfortunately, it's almost like our education makes us too safe and terrified to step into the world.

Since the LeBron James Family Foundation shifted its focus on education, it's been important to us to document the innovative work we're doing.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

The Internet opens up so many doors. It's a phenomenal tool for education but also a way for people to be scary and dangerous. We're living in a world where we can be hacked and exposed.

Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that's the one thing people can't take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.

I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life.

My family is everything. I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.

If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

Our higher education admissions process is neither fair nor effective.

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing.

Education is the vaccine for violence.

Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted.

I fully support U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his Global Education First Initiative and the work of U.N. Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown and the respectful president of the U.N. General Assembly Vuk Jeremic. I thank them for the leadership they continue to give.

In America we have big issues with education - in impoverished communities especially. I work with Teach For All, and so we're encouraging more people to get into teaching.

The ALAS Foundation was born as a consequence and a continuation of what we are doing with Pies Descalzos. I started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then, I have been very involved in the crusade for education.

Education has always been very important to me. It means you don't have to depend on anyone else.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

From a young age I had a real sense of the world of work. This is what vocational education gives you.

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.

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?