3 December 2020 Michael Morpurgo A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear – which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you’ll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.
3 December 2020 Gary Locke The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.
3 December 2020 Matthew Simpson Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.
3 December 2020 Danny Glover Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.
3 December 2020 Philip Pullman I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they’d never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!
3 December 2020 Jim DeMint I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.
3 December 2020 Michelle Williams Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn’t pass my friend’s sixth-grade class.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.
3 December 2020 Conrad Burns Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents.
3 December 2020 Jean-Jacques Rousseau 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.
3 December 2020 Frederic Bastiat And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties – liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?
3 December 2020 Bo Jackson I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will – that’s just the bottom line.
3 December 2020 Steven Spielberg Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as ‘The Pacific’.
3 December 2020 Jacques Barzun Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.
3 December 2020 Bobby Vinton Session musicians kind of respected me because what I was talking about made sense. That all came from an education. Believe me, education does you more good. Maybe that’s the reason I’ve been around so long.
3 December 2020 Ruben Studdard I have a greater goal – to empower young people through music education.
3 December 2020 Omar Bongo When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity or solidarity, but also implement the principles of respecting and promoting human rights.
3 December 2020 William Glasser If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
3 December 2020 Matt LeBlanc ‘Friends’ was an education in intelligent comedic banter in intelligent vernacular. It was an education in scene study. It was an education in group dynamic. I came out of there with a master’s degree in comedy.
3 December 2020 David Rockefeller I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.
3 December 2020 Buzz Aldrin There’s a need for accepting responsibility – for a person’s life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.
3 December 2020 Jet Li My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.
3 December 2020 Heinrich Heine If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
3 December 2020 Emma Watson I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle I’ve been fighting so hard to have an education. It’s been this uphill struggle. I was Warner Bros’ pain in the butt. I was their scheduling conflict. I was the one who made life difficult.
3 December 2020 Aldo Leopold Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.
