#education

It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education. ↗

— Barney Frank

#cite #course #education #effects #fundamentalist

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#desperate #education #feeding #handed #higher

Also, if we take back our schools and concentrate on improving them so our children get a better education, they will be better trained to compete for a job locally. ↗

— Vincent Frank

#back #better #children #compete #concentrate

We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#education #executions #first #funding #mississippi

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#elections #fighting #indispensable #more #part

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#conceit #education #frivolity #inborn

The task of all Christian scholarship—not just biblical studies—is to study reality as a manifestation of God’s glory, to speak and write about it with accuracy, and to savor the beauty of God in it, and to make it serve the good of man. It is an abdication of scholarship when Christians do academic work with little reference to God. If all the universe and everything in it exist by the design of an infinite, personal God, to make his manifold glory known and loved, then to treat any subject without reference to God’s glory is not scholarship but insurrection. ↗

— John Piper

#glory-of-god #beauty

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#education #everything #information #motivation #new

I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#associated #been #communities #confess #country

In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#any #because #bodies #combined #come