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Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing. -- Michael N. Castle
If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve. -- William Glasser
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs. -- John Ruskin
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching. -- A. Bartlett Giamatti
I double majored in English education and theater with a musical theater minor. Teaching is the only thing that makes me as happy as performing. -- Rob McClure
Education can help all Americans live longer, healthier lives. Teaching students to make healthy decisions can improve habits now and instill healthy eating habits for a lifetime. -- Matt Cartwright
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I want to support the whole idea of the humanities and teaching the humanities as being something that - even if it can't be quantitatively measured as other subjects - it's as fundamental to all education. -- Tom Stoppard
I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor inner-city white kids in Boston. It was interesting to me because I'd never been around poor whites before. -- Geoffrey Canada
We need sex education in schools, but we need it at home first. We need parents to learn the names of the teachers who are teaching their children. We need families to question day-care centers, to question other children and their own as to what goes on. -- Rod McKuen
In a way, education by its nature favours the extrovert because you are taking kids and putting them into a big classroom, which is automatically going to be a high-stimulation environment. Probably the best way of teaching in general is one on one, but that's not something everyone can afford. -- Susan Cain
Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics. -- Nancy Roman
I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens. -- Christine Lagarde
At this point in my life - age 24 - I have chosen a fairly strange path that not many are walking. I am a professional spoken word poet who tours the world performing and teaching. I run an organization called Project VOICE dedicated to using this art form as an education and empowerment tool in schools and communities of all kinds. -- Sarah Kay
The objective of education is learning, not teaching -- Russell L. Ackoff
Education is teaching our children to desire the right things. -- Plato
Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education. -- Aldous Huxley
With dance, it's about education. I'm teaching a lot. I teach the foundations of hip-hop. -- Stephen Boss
I.B.M. was my college education, effectively. They were very good at teaching you management. -- Mike McCue
Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading. -- Holbrook Jackson
A lot of education is like teaching marching; I try to make it more like dancing. -- Peter Schjeldahl
Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education. -- Alice Waters
The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child. -- Maria Montessori
Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave. -- Abraham Lincoln
Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave. -- Abraham Lincoln
I must dedicate my life to teaching my people, for only education would make their lot less bitter, their latent power more strong. -- Y. C. James Yen
Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children. -- Joe Baca
The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't. -- Jonathan Alter
Even though I did not go into college teaching, I believe the education I did receive helped me to become a better coach. -- LaVell Edwards
I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions - a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice of freedom. -- bell hooks
Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons. -- Ray Bradbury
To exclude religious teaching altogether from education... is a very dangerous and curious tendency. The result is to give paganism a new importance and influence. -- Nicholas Murray Butler
Much of coaching consists of teaching and communicating ideas, concepts and philosophies to the players and my education helped make me a much more effective coach. -- LaVell Edwards
The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new. -- Ivan Illich
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. -- John W. Gardner
Homeschool history tells of more than two centuries of home-teaching influence on American education, although it has been largely obscured by the drawn curtains of conventional bias. -- Raymond S. Moore
Saving habits - in itself an education is now. It reinforces your strengths, teaching you how to refuse, orderly thinking, think before you act and thus expand your mind -- Thornton T. Munger
Unions inherently create an 'us versus them' dynamic that makes winning against a company's management the top goal, not serving customers, innovating, or in the case of education, teaching kids. -- Sarah Lacy

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