Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
As the twig is bent the tree is inclined.
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
I could never allow [tax] cuts that devastate education for our children, that pollute our environment, that end the guarantee of health care for those who are served under Medicaid, that end our duty or violate our duty to our parents through Medicare. I just couldn't do that. As long as I'm president, I'll never let it happen.
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
If these distracted times prove anything, they prove that the greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin. And we will discover that the treasure-house of education has stood intact and unshaken in the storm. The man of cultivated life has founded his house upon a rock. You can never take away the magnificent mansion of his mind.
Latinos care about education, yes, so we need reform, not just money.
Unteachable from infancy to tomb - There is the first and main characteristic of mankind.
We can go for days, weeks, and even months without saying or thinking the word 'education. ' And yet, day in and day out, we are educating others and being educated ourselves. In the narrower sense of education - those classrooms and buildings and campuses where teachers and taught are brought together for purposes stated and unstated, for outcomes intended and unintended - we have all been profoundly affected by the pattern of days essentially not of our own making.
The folkish state must not adjust its entire educational work primarily to the inoculation of mere knowledge, but to the breeding of absolutely healthy bodies. The training of mental abilities is only secondary. And here again, first place must be taken by the development of character, especially the promotion of will-power and determination, combined with the training of joy in responsibility, and only in last place comes scientific schooling.
An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.
The truth is that the want of common education with us is not from our poverty, but from the want of an orderly system. More money is now paid for the education of a part than would be paid for that of the whole if systematically arranged.
Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.
Education is what people do to you. Learning is what you do to yourself. Focus on being connected, always learning, fully aware and super present.
For as the old saying is, When house and land are gone and spent Then learning is most excellent.
Middle-class families know education begins at birth.
The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.
Learning from experience and learning from education, both are important. Your education & values decide how you learn from your experiences.
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.