#educate

Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to sit outside the global order. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#cannot #civilization #country #crucial #down

My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated. ↗

— Moon Unit Zappa

#first #get #going #help #i

Education is dangerous - every educated person is a future enemy. ↗

— Hermann Goering

#educated #education #enemy #every #future

They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

#farmer #first #first of all #good #him

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#device #educated #male #many #simple

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#artists #capital #educate #labour #masters

I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through. ↗

— Randy Harrison

#coming #educated #going #growing #i

That's the way I've been educated: I always think about what I missed and the things that you did, you did them, so you don't have to think about them any more. ↗

— Thierry Henry

#always #any #been #did #educated

My father and I used to tussle about me becoming an actor. He's from strong, Presbyterian Scottish working-class stock, and he used to sit me down and say, 'You know, 99 percent of actors are out of work. You've been educated, so why do you want to spend your life pretending to be someone else when you could be your own man?' ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#actor #becoming #been #could #down

But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about. ↗

— Anita Hill

#educated #end #gender #harassment #issue