#education

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. ↗

— Anne Sullivan

#beginning #built #child #education #elaborate

[C]lass consciousness is not one of our national diseases; we suffer, indeed, from its opposite--the delusion that class barriers are not real. That delusion reveals itself in many forms, some of them as beautiful as a glass eye. One is the Liberal doctrine that a prairie demagogue promoted to the United States Senate will instantly show all the sagacity of a Metternich ... another is the doctrine that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will cease thereby to be a moron ... ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#morons #universities #beauty

There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#children #country #development #economic #economic development

My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#could #education #frugal #grandfather #grandmother

An education is a more surefire guarantee that you have possibilities opened to you. ↗

— Jonathan Taylor Thomas

#guarantee #more #opened #possibilities #you

The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#candidates #education #knighthood #long #preparatory

I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#education #health #health care #i #out

We are looking for ways to decrease the dropout rate. I am pretty sure, if we eliminate career and technical education, we are going to increase the dropout rate. ↗

— Michael Enzi

#career #decrease #education #eliminate #going

No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education. ↗

— Bobby Scott

#college #college education #denied #earning #education

So, the struggle for equal educational opportunity continues. ↗

— Bobby Scott

#educational #equal #opportunity #struggle