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When I was at school you got an overall general education on many things, even just basic facts. -- Jo Brand
Despite the hours spent debating different models of general education, the choices faculties make rarely lead to any significant difference in the cognitive development of undergraduates. -- Derek Bok
I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose educational system had its roots dating back to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. -- George Andrew Olah
The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible. -- Orson Scott Card
There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the general education in engineering. Also, it was a very difficult and rigorous course. So, it made me strong and resourceful. -- Leroy Chiao
The intensity of a national culture should be represented by... the general education level and... the exceptional merit of a small elite of pioneers. -- George Sarton
Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will become evident. -- Rudolf Arnheim
For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete. -- Lafcadio Hearn
The theory of modern education is that you need a general education before you specialize. And I think to some extent, before you're going to be a great stock picker, you need some general education. -- Charlie Munger
In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education. -- Stephen Covey
All this has been very formative in both my research and my teaching, so I value it enormously in my life. It's why I'm a strong proponent of general education -- because I saw how it opened my eyes. -- Paul Rozin
Therefore, to teach them [women] at least an outline of economics and law is the first requirement after giving them a general education. Figuratively speaking, it will be like providing the women of civilized society with a pocket dagger for self-protection. -- Fukuzawa Yukichi
Prophetic of infidel times, and indicating the unsoundness of our general education, 'The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation', has started into public favour with a fair chance of poisoning the fountains of science, and sapping the foundations of religion. -- David Brewster
A sharp difference should exist between general education and specialized knowledge. As particularly today the latter threatens more and more to sink into the service of pure Mammon, general education, at least in its more ideal attitude, must be retained as a counterweight. -- Adolf Hitler
Modern man receives a large part of his knowledge and general education by way of pictorial impressions, illustrations, photographs, films. Daily newspapers bring more pictures from year to year. In addition, the advertising business operates with optical signals as well as representations. Exhibitions and museums are indeed offspring of this visual hustle. -- Otto Neurath
It is, however, a most astonishing but incontestable fact, that the history of the evolution of man as yet constitutes no part of general education. Indeed, our so-called "educated classes" are to this day in total ignorance of the most important circumstances and the most remarkable phenomena which Anthropogeny has brought to light. -- Ernst Haeckel
I have indeed two great measures at heart, without which no republic can maintain itself in strength: 1. That of general education, to enable every man to judge for himself what will secure or endanger his freedom. 2. To divide every county into hundreds, of such size that all the children of each will be within reach of a central school in it. -- Thomas Jefferson
My own view is that the general education curriculum that a college picks has to be appropriate for the kind of student body that it has. -- Louis Menand
The difficulty with coming up with a curriculum is mainly that faculty aren't trained to think in terms of general education. They're trained to think in terms of their own discipline, or their specialty. -- Louis Menand
There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the general education in engineering. Also, it was a very difficult and rigorous course. So, it made me strong and resourceful." -- Leroy Chiao
It is, however, a most astonishing but incontestable fact, that the history of the evolution of man as yet constitutes no part of general education. Indeed, our so-called 'educated classes' are to this day in total ignorance of the most important circumstances and the most remarkable phenomena which Anthropogeny has brought to light. -- Ernst Haeckel
Education is the only way forward in Latin America and developing countries in general. -- Shakira
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education. -- Thomas Jefferson
I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world. -- Steve Case
In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective. -- Stanley Fish
Last year, I twice voted against the Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations bill because it did not adequately fund education in general, and Native American programs specifically. -- Rick Renzi
If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement. -- William Glasser
There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower parents to be education reformers. -- John T. Walton
If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women. -- Harri Holkeri
As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes. -- Dee Dee Myers
Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students in each class was huge. I think in political science general, which I taught, it was around 100. -- Pranab Mukherjee
My family didn't have time for me, so I decided to join the Suvorov military academy, which is in St. Petersburg. I spent two years there and studied general military science. At that point, once I graduated, I joined the Chernigov higher education pilot academy. -- Roman Romanenko
In terms of the actual curriculum for management education, my own view is very simple-minded: The world is incredibly complex, it changes all the time, and we should not even hope that we could create a general model that accurately describes the world in all its possible states. -- Dan Ariely
I fully support U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his Global Education First Initiative and the work of U.N. Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown and the respectful president of the U.N. General Assembly Vuk Jeremic. I thank them for the leadership they continue to give. -- Malala Yousafzai
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
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education. -- Denis Diderot
For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right. -- Kofi Annan
I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world -- Steve Case
There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education. -- John Stuart Mill
If you look at the people who have high impact, they have pretty general knowledge. They don't have a really narrowly focused education. -- Larry Page
I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present. -- Abraham Lincoln
The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

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