#ducati

I've always mistrusted that sort o' learning as leaves folks foolish and unreasonable about business. ↗

— George Eliot

#practicality #business

I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early. ↗

— Francois Gautier

#born #catholic #early #education #fitted

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success. ↗

— Bill Gates

#communities #correlation #educational #high #inner-city

Cliché: "The MBA changed my life." What it really means: "A fantastic career, a great social life and a healthy bank balance...three of the things I had before I started the program. ↗

— Sameer Kamat

#education #indian-author #indian-authors #management #mba

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking. ↗

— William Godwin

#education #him #his #into #lead

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education. ↗

— William Godwin

#educate #education #ends #forget #haste

And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again. ↗

— Wavy Gravy

#also #education #ever #greatest #had

I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs. ↗

— Dave Heineman

#am #assess #believe #century #continually

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