#education

The government's objective, broadly expressed, is that all persons, whatever their level of ability, whether they live in town or country, have a right as citizens to a free education of the kind for which they are best fitted and to the fullest extent of their powers. ↗

— Peter Fraser

#best #broadly #citizens #country #education

You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education. ↗

— Jeff Foxworthy

#may #more #pickup #redneck #spent

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. ↗

— Anatole France

#able #being #between #committed #differentiate

Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do. ↗

— Alexis Herman

#education #getting #history #important #important thing

Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country. ↗

— Robert Hewison

#country #death #dedicated #education #fine

In a world where education is predominantly verbal, highly educated people find it all but impossible to pay serious attention to anything but words and notions. There is always money for, there are always doctrines in, the learned foolery of research into what, for scholars, is the all-important problem: Who influenced whom to say what when? Even in this age of technology the verbal humanities are honoured. The non-verbal humanities, the arts of being directly aware of the given facts of our existence, are almost completely ignored. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#age

Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor. ↗

— Samuel Horsley

#education #form #government #infant #itself

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#education #extent #found #i #insist

For me, it does not 'miss' if (the Potteries Thinkbelt study) goes into the archive, not as an example of how railway carriages can be used for teaching, but as one of the most powerful question marks ever placed against the architecture of university education. ↗

— Roy Landau

#education #university #architecture

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education. ↗

— Chris Van Hollen

#education #escaping #greatest #higher #higher education