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  • Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

    Ernest Dimnet (1954). “The Art of Thinking”, p.36, Prabhat Prakashan
  • I wasn't going to great schools, because my parents didn't believe in public education. They wanted the education to be influenced by their religion, so I was going to these halfway education-slash-Christian schools that were like pop-up shop-style education.

  • Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

    Attributed; no source found
  • I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

    Sir Winston Churchill (1966). “Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit”
  • I went to Harvard High because it was a great school. That it happened to be a military school was just a part of it. I gained from the discipline there.

  • 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.

  • This world is your body. This world is a great school, This world is your silent teacher.

    Teacher   Yoga   School  
  • The mission of a great school is not to cram you with facts so that you can regurgitate them...This gives many boys such a distaste for learning that they never read another book as long as they live. No, the mission is to inspire you with a taste for scholarship - a taste which will last you all your life.

    Book   School   Boys  
  • Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than I am chasing you down. And you know what? I'll see you and I'll pray you want me still.

    Soccer   Stars   School  
    Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.188, Delacorte Press
  • The Psalter is the great school of prayer.

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2007). “I Want to Live These Days with You: A Year of Daily Devotions”, p.54, Westminster John Knox Press
  • The foundation for future prosperity is built on the bedrock of good jobs and great schools. We are building a strong foundation one job at a time and one educated Texan at a time.

    Strong   Jobs   School  
  • Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

  • My advice has always been to study the craft of acting if you want to be an actor. There are many great schools that teach acting. NYU being one of them.

    School   Nyu   Advice  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

  • I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.

    "Trump Fires Back at Obama Campaign Smear" by Steve Coz, www.newsmax.com. August 19, 2012.
  • Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

  • Look I'm politically correct, I went to a great school, I was a good student, look, I'm a smart guy.

    Smart   School   Guy  
    Source: www.economist.com
  • I went to great schools. Wharton School, a lot of great places.

    Source: townhall.com
  • Sport is and should remain a great school of life that supports young people in their personal development. It teaches respect for others and also for oneself.

    Sports   School   People  
    "The Olympics and the Spirit of Sport" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 2012.
  • Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

  • Hanifs (Muslims) are stumbling, Christians all astray Jews wildered, Magians far on error’s way. We mortals are composed of two great schools Enlightened knaves or else religious fools.

  • Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

    Education   Freedom   War  
    "The Common School Journal and Educational Reformer" edited by William B. Fowle, 1852.
  • There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

    In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 407 (1775)
  • Most of the time they buy what other people buy. They move in great schools, like bluefish, all identical. There is safety in numbers. If one wants Schnabel, they all want Schnabel, if one buys a Keith Haring, two hundred Keith Harings will be sold.

    Moving   School   Numbers  
    Robert Hughes (2015). “The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes”, p.181, Vintage
  • But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.

    School   Bangs   Life Is  
  • Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

    "Books: The Great Gadfly". "TIME" Magazine, October 8, 1965.
  • The examination of conscience has an important educational value. it teaches us to look sincerely at our own lives, to compare them with the truth of the Gospel and to evaluate them with parameters that are not only human but drawn from divine Revelation. Comparison with the Commandments, with the Beatitudes, and above all with the Precept to love, represents the first great 'school of penance

  • We are in a great school, and we should be diligent to learn, and continue to store up the knowledge of heaven and of earth, and read good books, although I cannot say that I would recommend the reading of all books, for it is not all books which are good. Read good books, and extract from them wisdom and understanding as much as you possibly can, aided by the Spirit of God. (JD 12:124)

    Reading   Book   School  
    Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”
  • Fifty years ago, great schools like the University of California and the City University of New York - as well as many state colleges - were tuition free. Today college is unaffordable for many working class families. For the sake of our economy and millions of Americans, we must make higher education more affordable.

  • When I first started, I would go to Weist-Barron, and I studied with Rita Litton and ACTeen. For teenagers, it's a really, really great school. We did a lot of on-camera stuff, so you see yourself and what you do on camera.

    Teenager   School   Stuff  
    "Daniella Alonso: A Back Stage Exclusive". Interview with Noah Laracy, www.backstage.com. September 28, 2010.
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