At the heart of good education are those gifted, hardworking, and memorable teachers whose inspiration kindles fires that never quite go out, whose remembered encouragement is sometimes the only hard ground we stand upon, and whose very selves are the stuff of the best lessons they ever teach us. Most of us, no matter how long ago it's been, can name our kindergarten teacher. Our first music teacher. Our junior high algebra teacher. Good teachers never die.
It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.
I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.
Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Coming from an African background, obviously the foundation of the family home is education, probably because my parents had to work a lot harder for everything that they've got in this country.
Young people don't really study the facts; they watch the skewed MSNBC and get a primarily liberal education.
Let us have an education, that shall practically develop our thinking faculties and manhood; and then, and only then, shall we be able to vie with our oppressors, go where we may. . .
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
The desire to explore thus marks out the mathematician. This is one of the forces making for the growth of mathematics. The mathematician enjoys what he already knows; he is eager for more knowledge.
The anti-elitist values in America, I think, are very destructive to education.
The ultimate goal of mathematics is to eliminate all need for intelligent thought.
Hillary Clinton said we need to bring back vocational education in high school. We need to support community colleges. We need to make sure that people who are not going to finish college have a job waiting for them and the skills to do the job. These are all - have become fairly standard Democratic policy positions.
I grew up as an only child of two parents who had dropped out of high school. They had enormous respect for education and encouraged me as a child when I had strong interests in both math and science, but we really didn't have much by way of educational role modeling in our family.
I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
Directing ain't about drawing a neat little picture and showing it to the cameraman. I didn't want to go to film school. I didn't know what the point was. The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two.
I don't care how rich and successful a man is. He's nothing without an education.
