“We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.”
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“The mere imparting of information is not education.”
“I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.”
“'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.”
“Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit the loss of the empire of the United States and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.”
“Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.”
“Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.”
“Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.”
“I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.”
“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”
“I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.”
“Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.”
“One of the critical issues that we have to confront is illegal immigration, because this is a multi-headed Hydra that affects our economy, our health care, our health care, our education systems, our national security, and also our local criminality.”
“My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.”
“How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.”
“Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.”
“Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.”
“It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.”
“Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.”
“For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in my intelligence was elsewhere.”
“I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education.”
“Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.”
“Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement.”
“I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education.”