Economic prosperity and quality education for our children are inexorably linked.
We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.
Browsing for books with a mouse and screen is not nearly as joyful an act as wandering the stacks and getting lost in the labyrinthine corridors of knowledge. The best libraries are places of imagination, education and community. The best libraries have mystery to them.
A survival tale peels away the niceties and comforts of civilization. Suddenly, all the technology and education in the world means nothing. I think all of us wonder while reading a survival tale, 'What would I have done in this situation? Would I have made it?'
Presumptions of guilt or innocence may sometimes be strengthened or weakened by the place of birth and kind of education and associates a man has grown up with, and good character may at times interpose, and justly save, under suspicion, one who is accused of crime on slight circumstances.
I decided to combine my musical background, business education and creative abilities - and go into the record business.
My parents lived a modest life, and their main concern was the education of their children. My father was a self-taught man but had a great intellectual curiosity, not only for biblical and talmudic texts, but also for philosophy, psychoanalysis and history.
The best sex education for kids is when Daddy pats Mommy on the fanny when he comes home from work.
We have lots of evidence that putting investments in early childhood education, even evidence from very hard-nosed economists, is one of the very best investments that the society can possibly make. And yet we still don't have public support for things like preschools.
Latinos are concerned about the same pocketbook issues that matter to most middle class Americans - creating good-paying jobs in this country, making sure our children get a quality education, and ensuring that our families have access to affordable and quality healthcare.
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
You never see a child die from education on TV. But make no mistake about it: children die from lack of education all the time. Children without an education are more likely to grow up to have HIV/AIDS. They're more likely to die in infancy or before the age of five.
By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms.
At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.
Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.
The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts.
Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher education outstrips any in the world. Look where the rest of the world goes for higher education, for graduate degrees. They come here.
School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.
A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.
I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.
Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.
Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools
He that loves reading has everything within his reach.
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
I believe strongly in the power of arts education to engage and empower young people.
Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
A dynamic economy begins with a good education.