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  • Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them. -- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
  • Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity. -- Frank Herbert
  • Educational reforms are like ripe fruit. They rarely travel well. -- Andy Hargreaves
  • Educational progress is a national concern; education is a private one. -- Nikki Giovanni
  • Educational success should be measured by how strong your desire is to keep learning. -- Alfie Kohn
  • Education about gender and peace is important. Educational strategies to promote peace must consider all relations of dominance. -- Widad Akrawi
  • Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life. -- E. Franklin Frazier
  • Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations -- J. William Fulbright
  • Educational system in America is not as good as in China. You may be an idiot. It is hard to tell with you white people. -- Kate Danley
  • Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger. -- Terry Pratchett
  • 'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger. -- Terry Pratchett
  • Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them. -- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
  • Educational opportunities have supported the rise of the African middle class, the professional cadre of young people who are now willing and able to contribute to Africa's future prosperity. -- Mo Ibrahim
  • Since the end of the 1970s, something has gone profoundly wrong in America. Inequality has soared. Educational progress slowed. Incarceration rates quintupled. Family breakdown accelerated. Median household income stagnated. -- Nicholas Kristof
  • Educational enterprises do not for any length of time remain immune from the struggle of interests for power which is the dominant feature of social life under a class system. -- A. J. Muste
  • I was 25 when I was made director of marketing at 'Newsweek.' I was 29 when I was made chief executive officer of Kaplan Educational Centers. I was raised to be confident. -- Jonathan Grayer
  • Educational romanticism asks too much from students at the bottom of the intellectual pile, asks the wrong things from those in the middle, and asks too little from those at the top. -- Charles A. Murray
  • Educational equality doesn't guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings and 'leaky pipelines' that prevent women from getting ahead in the workplace. -- Michelle Bachelet
  • Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around with royal-blue chickens. -- Fran Lebowitz
  • Sometimes I fear that, if Harvard does not give up trying to turn itself from an Institution of Learning into an Educational Institution, we may have a generation of professors whose duty it will be to disseminate information which they have not the time to acquire. -- Edwin Boring
  • When you know better you do better. -- Maya Angelou
  • You can never be overdressed or overeducated. -- Oscar Wilde
  • If little else, the brain is an educational toy. -- Tom Robbins
  • The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. -- Sydney J. Harris
  • Children learn more from what you are than what you teach. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
  • The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. -- Vince Lombardi
  • It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning. -- Claude Bernard
  • It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. -- Frederick Douglass
  • To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. -- Marilyn vos Savant
  • Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. -- Jim Rohn
  • The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home. -- William Temple
  • One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. -- Maria Montessori
  • Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. -- Albert Einstein
  • The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. -- Aristotle
  • The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. -- Malcolm Forbes
  • There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
  • The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. -- Plutarch
  • Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. -- Confucius
  • Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. -- Helen Keller
  • The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. -- Carl R. Rogers
  • It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -- Aristotle
  • Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. -- Abraham Lincoln
  • There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. -- James Truslow Adams
  • Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. -- Marian Wright Edelman
  • I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message. -- Steve Irwin
  • I'd rather see the United States as a beacon of good work and good citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international educational measurement. -- Howard Gardner
  • One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. -- Alvin Toffler
  • I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. -- Groucho Marx
  • I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out. -- Ellen Ochoa
  • It's quite fashionable to say that the educational system is broken. It's not broken. It's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't need it anymore. -- Sugata Mitra
  • 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. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • I don't think anybody, actor or marine, is ever going to enjoy boot camp. It certainly wasn't at all enjoyable. Informative and educational, yes, but it was pretty tortuous. -- Ashton Holmes
  • As a club, we have an educational purpose: to give back to those people who love Arsenal so that they learn moral values from our game and how we behave. -- Arsene Wenger
  • Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
  • What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
  • I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you. -- Mary J. Blige
  • Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal ethical principles. -- Juan Antonio Samaranch
  • We need to honor our troops who served and show our support by giving our men and women who served the best health care, the best educational opportunities, and the best job training available. They deserve nothing less. -- Barbara Lee
  • It's actually very surprising how little we think about the quality of our decision-making and how we could improve it. How absent decision-making classes are from educational curricula. How little we think about how it is we think. -- Noreena Hertz
  • Universities are no longer educational in any sense of the word that Rousseau would have recognised. Instead, they have become unabashed instruments of capital. Confronted with this squalid betrayal, one imagines he would have felt sick and oppressed. -- Terry Eagleton
  • A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis. -- Temple Grandin
  • You have, unfortunately, a K-12 educational system where the requirements to graduate are not the requirements to be college and career-ready. So if you want young adults who are college and career-ready, our K-12 system right now does not have that as its standard. -- Gerald Chertavian
  • If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks. -- Maria Montessori
  • Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children. -- Hillary Clinton
  • For those who struggle with anti-pagan prejudices and stereotypes, Humanist Paganism might be a powerful educational tool. It can show that a pagan can be a sophisticated, cosmopolitan, and enlightened person, and that a pagan culture can be artistically vibrant, environmentally conscious, intellectually stimulating, and socially just. -- Brendan Myers
  • Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines. -- Hans Haacke
  • We know that no algorithm can solve global poverty; no pill can cure a chronic illness; no box of chocolates can mend a broken relationship; no educational DVD can transform a child into a baby Einstein; no drone strike can end a terrorist conflict. Sadly, there is no such thing as 'One Tip to a Flat Stomach.' -- Carl Honore
  • Any black person who clings to the misguided notion that white people represent the embodiment of all that is evil and black people all that is good remains wedded to the very logic of Western metaphysical dualism that is the heart of racist binary thinking. Such thinking is not liberatory. Like the racist educational ideology it mirrors and imitates, it invites a closing of the mind. -- bell hooks
  • Bee stings are very educational -- Garth Nix
  • Crises in themselves are highly educational. -- Henry Arthur Jones
  • Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. -- Earl Warren
  • The whole educational and professional training system... -- Noam Chomsky
  • Being broke is a very efficient educational agency. -- Edwin Lefevre
  • Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change. -- Andy Hargreaves
  • So, the struggle for equal educational opportunity continues. -- Bobby Scott
  • Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention -- Andy Hargreaves
  • The pathway to educational excellence lies within each school. -- Terrence E. Deal
  • Obviously I think politics is interesting and important and educational. -- William Kristol
  • With anything, you have to approach from an educational, mature standpoint. -- Zendaya
  • I'd like to work on job and educational opportunities for all. -- Pat Nixon
  • Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process. -- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
  • Film is the greatest educational medium the world has ever known. -- Preston Sturges
  • I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system. -- Matt Taibbi
  • Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change. -- Andy Hargreaves
  • I read my web blogs, my tech blogs, it's highly educational, folks. -- Rush Limbaugh
  • Today's terrorists do not share a particular ethnic, educational or socioeconomic background. -- Bennie Thompson
  • I am committed to contributing to the educational growth of our youth. -- S. Lemon
  • The most important educational vehicle in all life is a parent figure. -- Bill Cosby
  • Marriage is something that should be tried at least once. It's educational. -- Helen Nielsen
  • All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching? -- Nicholas Johnson
  • Powerful groups with anti-Christian worldviews dominate major media and major educational institutions. -- Marvin Olasky
  • A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state. -- Isabel Paterson
  • The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled. -- Bobby Scott
  • Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
  • You teach kids how to succeed when they successfully foil the educational system. -- Arlo Guthrie
  • I think that any important educational goal can be realized via several routes. -- Howard Gardner
  • I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person. -- Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational. -- Charles M. Schulz
  • There is an educational cliff we are walking over right this very second. -- Geoffrey Canada
  • I'm really not into the educational aspect of performing. It's not in me. -- Dave Lombardo
  • The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end. -- John Dewey
  • Today's students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach. -- Marc Prensky
  • In our educational institutions applied science may almost be described as a "no-man's land." -- Edward Teller
  • Our educational system now teaches every kid the same thing. It's like rubber stamping! -- Nick Nolte
  • If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win. -- LeVar Burton
  • In academia in general, there's this push toward using comics as an educational tool. -- Gene Luen Yang
  • Libraries are fun, educational, and the biggest bargain on the face of the earth. -- Madeleine Albright
  • Testing children until they cry is a bad idea. It is an educational malpractice. -- Diane Ravitch
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  • Our educational system needs to give equal importance to the intellect and the heart. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
  • The most influential of all educational factor is the conversation in a child's home. -- William Temple
  • A casual attitude toward human hurt and pain is the surest sign of educational failure. -- Norman Cousins
  • A child's slowness in any subject indicates a deficiency in his environment, educational or otherwise. -- Shinichi Suzuki
  • Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun. -- Malorie Blackman
  • The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
  • The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn't enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system. -- Dean Koontz
  • Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution. -- Al Capp
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