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When Christianity is received, it stimulates the faculties, and calls forth new ideas, new motives and new sentiments. It has been the mother of all modern education
View quotes by James McCosh

Financial education needs to become a part of our national curriculum and scoring systems so that it’s not just the rich kids that learn about money... it’s all of us.
View quotes by David Bach

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.
View quotes by John Gardner

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
View quotes by Alan Greenspan

Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.
View quotes by Judith Martin

Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.
View quotes by Howard Baker

A different type of education came when as a member of a medical corps in the National Guard I spent several weeks in a military camp in California.
View quotes by Paul D Boyer

If income was directly proportional to technical proficiency and education, classical and jazz musicians would be some of the most affluent people in the world.
View quotes by Robert Coleman

The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.
View quotes by Avery Brundage

The best maths lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.
View quotes by Jodi Rell

Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person
View quotes by David Hume

Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.
View quotes by Peter Agre

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
View quotes by Emma Goldman

The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things that education must try to produce.
View quotes by Virginia Gildersleeve

With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in man, than any other association of men.
View quotes by Clarence Darrow

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.
View quotes by Sir Thomas More

I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. [if the massive marketing behind such things is a success for sure!]
View quotes by Fannie Farmer

The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.
View quotes by Avery Brundage

In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.
View quotes by Bobby Scott

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair. [Education over punishment debate]
View quotes by J Edgar Hoover

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