#education

Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal ethical principles. ↗

— Juan Antonio Samaranch

#blending #create #culture #educational #effort

You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they're not going to hear them in America. I believe it's part of their education. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#believe #campuses #college #college campuses #controversial

Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher education outstrips any in the world. Look where the rest of the world goes for higher education, for graduate degrees. They come here. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#any #areas #best #come #country

We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education. ↗

— Nigel Short

#britain #british #comes #compulsory #education

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#belong #convict #education #forever #got

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#education #first #line #pacific #second

I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool. ↗

— Leon Spinks

#dumb #educated #fool #i #know

I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works. ↗

— Larry Niven

#i #our #repair #replace #something

The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#earnings #education #gap #men #more

I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#become #civics #concerned #education #had