“Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful manner which helps them shape their own future.”
Education is about more than classrooms and diplomas. These quotes challenge conventional thinking about learning, teaching, curiosity, and what it actually means to be educated — which, as several of these thinkers point out, has little to do with memorization.
“We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.”
“Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful manner which helps them shape their own future.”
“The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.”
“To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.”
“I give the children education.”
“English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.”
“There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.”
“More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.”
“Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.”
“Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing.”
“An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.”
“The value of a good education has never left me.”
“Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.”
“Education is not preparation for life education is life itself.”
“In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.”
“The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.”