Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.
I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.
A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet
To see your enemy and know him is a part of the complete education of man.
Boredom is the specter that haunts children from kindergarten to graduation on every continent.
"Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference"
You cannot but learn more of the world's heft, as you take it now into your hands.
I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer, anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that make the money and last the longest.
The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates.
You have to be someone.
The factory model of education is the wrong model for the 21st century. Today, our schools must prepare all students for college and careers-and do far more to personalize instruction and employ the smart use of technology.
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Making sure all our students get a great education, find a career that's fulfilling and rewarding, and have a chance to live out their dreams. . . wouldn't just make us a more successful country - it would also make us a more fair and just one.
I do not allow my schooling to interfere with my education
Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.
Education beats the beauty and the youth.
Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.
It is part of the educator's responsibility to see equally to two things: First, that the problem grows out of the conditions of the experience being had in the present, and that it is within the range of the capacity of students; and, secondly, that it is such that it arouses in the learner an active quest for information and for production of new ideas. The new facts and new ideas thus obtained become the ground for further experiences in which new problems are presented.
Nature is the best instructor.
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.