Wouldn't have no knowledge of wealth, without no knowledge of self.
Education is an organic necessity of a human being.
Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?
International Literacy Day is an occasion to celebrate the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies everywhere
We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.
In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.
Get out of bed, go to school, stick at school. Make it happen for yourself because those opportunities are waiting.
Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
Imagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be ‘wrong’, which is what our education encourages us to believe.
Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.
A truth does not become greater by repetition.
The young dont know what age is, and the old forget what youth was.
Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.
I'm for the poor man — all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' — that's my slogan.
An education is the investment with the greatest returns.
Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick. . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history. . . should be rendered. . . worthy to receive, and able to guard the sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of their fellow citizens.
This instrument [radio] can teach. It can illuminate, yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it's nothing but wires and lights in a box.
Research must continue to be the centerpiece of intellectual life, and our commitment to research must grow, because our problems are growing.
Suffrage is the pivotal right.
We will not achieve high performance in education if we replace teachers with machines or turn teachers into machines.