A Different Education Quotes

#1. People come to me with their passion about transportation, about education, about health care, about agriculture, the dairy industry, the almond growers. I'm just a kid in a candy store, learning and eating up all this different knowledge. - Author: Jerry McNerney

#2. Of course we had the best possible classical education, which gave us a very strong foundation and tradition. But we also learned a lot by collaborating with different pop/rock artists and especially by recording and working in the studio. - Author: Luka Sulic

#3. Much of economics isn't difficult, or rather, the difficulty is in cooking up arguments to "prove" that commonsense conclusions are wrong. The fact is that many commonsense conclusions are quite correct, and it takes a lot of education to get you to believe different. - Author: Jerry Pournelle

#4. With large industries throwing out the factory model as counterproductive, it is long past time for schools to do the same. I wonder how many adults would do well at dealing with different job requirements and a different boss every 47 minutes. - Author: Susan Ohanian

#5. We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions, and that is something altogether different. - Author: Louis L'Amour

#6. Every relationship is an education.
Each new person we welcome into our hearts is a chance to evolve into something radically different than we used to be. - Author: Brian K. Vaughan

#7. Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view. - Author: Robert M. Hutchins

#8. My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it's about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn't. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don't take what they have for granted. - Author: Kevin Hart

#9. Thinking that education is something different from discipling our children is a sure sign that we have been 'educated' by the state. Education is discipleship. - Author: R.C. Sproul Jr.

#10. I went to Washington several times at the request of different parties to talk about education reform. I used to always say I felt like I needed to take a shower after I left, because it was so partisan that I just really hated it. - Author: Paul Sadler

#11. We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kinds of powers in this world. One child is given a light saber, another a wizard's education. The trick is not to amass all the different kinds of power, but to use well the kind you've been granted. - Author: Susan Cain

#12. You get a very different type of education if you go out to the desert, to the places of power, places where it is easy to cross over from one dimensional plane to another, where power hovers, so to speak. - Author: Frederick Lenz

#13. We are creating a one size fits all system that needlessly brands many young people as failures, when they might thrive if offered a different education whose progress was measured differently. Paradoxically we're embracing standardized tests just when the economy is eliminating standardized jobs. - Author: Robert Reich

#14. College is a different scene than it was ten years ago. It used to be all about sex and drugs. Now it's all about texting and fast food. - Author: Aaron B. Powell

#15. Stand aside for a while and leave room for learning, observe carefully what children do, and then, if you have understood well, perhaps teaching will be different from before. - Author: Loris Malaguzzi

#16. If you've got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages. - Author: Michael Lewis

#17. (He) committed the cardinal sin in a college atmosphere not only of being different but of being different in a way that left a lot of people with the impression that he thought he was better than they were. - Author: John Feinstein

#18. But a mountain of recent evidence suggests that teacher skill has less influence on a student's performance than a completely different set of factors: namely, how much kids have learned from their parents, how hard they work at home, and whether the parents have instilled an appetite for education. - Author: Steven D. Levitt

#19. I was surfing the Internet for a different sort of education. I surfed for photos of circus freaks and synonyms for the word intercourse and for answers to why staring at the stars in the evening tore my heart with longing. - Author: Maggie Stiefvater

#20. Because of my schooling, my fate would always be a little different from my friends. - Author: Daoud Hari

#21. To be ignorant is to waste the talents you were born with. To be ignorant is to confine your life to a path no different than the generations before you - Author: Linda Cardillo

#22. The work of popular education, the temperance movement, the peace movement, are to a great extent carried on by the young. Their meetings show that the young understand one of their tasks: that of bringing together the different classes through social intercourse. - Author: Ellen Key

#23. I was never close to Jerry Falwell because he had his ministry, I had mine. And we came from different theological training and from a different psychological education. - Author: Robert H. Schuller

#24. Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students in each class was huge. I think in political science general, which I taught, it was around 100. - Author: Pranab Mukherjee

#25. A different voice may be particularly effective in disturbing the existing participants into re-examining matters they had come to take for granted. - Author: Stefan Collini

#26. It wasn't all that different from any particularly demanding boarding school, except that of course nobody ever went home for the holidays and we had a lot of brain surgery. - Author: Kage Baker

#27. With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job. - Author: Jennifer Granholm

#28. The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical context. The guitar playing stood out as being different in some way. That was a real education for me. - Author: Arto Lindsay

#29. In fact, education is very different from training. Training is what you know whereas education is who you are as a person. - Author: Jacob Lund Fisker

#30. This notion that I was somehow special and deserving of a more involved education was wrong.I was smart at taking tests, but I knew how smart some of my friends were; they were just smart in different ways. - Author: Kamasi Washington

#31. Defining by a general law the expenditures on the ... school ... is a very different thing from appointing the state as educator of the people. Government and church should rather be equally excluded from any influence on the school. - Author: Karl Marx

#32. Maths is fundamentally a different process in education than it is in the real world. There is an insistence that we do maths by hand when most of it is done by computers. The idea that you have to do everything by hand before you can operate a computer is nonsense. - Author: Conrad Wolfram

#33. It is agreed that little girls should have a different physical education than little boys, but it is not admitted how much of the difference is counseled by the conviction that little girls should not look like little boys. - Author: Germaine Greer

#34. The International Declaration of Human Rights says the right to housing, health, education should be guaranteed to everyone. The moment these things are provided, we will have a different world order and nuclear weapons will become less of a threat. - Author: Bernard Lown

#35. In India the human being is a symphonic theme. 'The people' is not a compact, close-knit concept, but a sprawling one, flowing not only into different walks of life, but into the intricately woven multi-layers of privilege, wealth, and education. 'The people' created by Gandhi is a young concept. - Author: Nayantara Sahgal

#36. Women and girls are disproportionately affected by landmines. They have different needs when it comes to education about risks. And they may face greater challenges when a family member is killed or injured. - Author: Ban Ki-moon

#37. Many of the world's greatest geniuses all had in common that they were pulled from the school environment. They were freed to discover the undiscovered. They had the imagination to 'see' a different way and the drive to try to build what they had seen. - Author: Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

#38. Education opens eyes to see, feel, and enjoy the beauty of life in a different way. - Author: Debasish Mridha

#39. Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them. Only a self-disciplined person can be obedient; and only such a person can be autonomous. - Author: Thomas Szasz

#40. Education never really interested me, to be fair. I mean, education does interest me, but academic school study is a different thing. I can't quite grasp that. - Author: Ed Speleers

#41. What is happening to teachers now across this nation is a disgrace. The attacks on them are a blot on our nation. Teachers and students are not different interest groups. Anyone who demeans teachers demeans education and hurts children. - Author: Diane Ravitch

#42. But what is the point of education at all? Is it merely to cultivate the capacity of memory, passing examinations and getting a job and all the rest, or is education something entirely different? Something more! - Author: Jiddu Krishnamurti

#43. The last two days I've been on long bus rides, driven through the countryside on the back of a motorbike, and crossed rivers on wooden boats, traversing currents into a different century. It's late and dark, but I'm so close now. My uncle died five kilometers from here. - Author: Tucker Elliot

#44. I need to get a greater vocabulary than what I have and when I get mad and my brain searches for a word. I have to find different words and to do that you need to have more of an education. - Author: Duane Chapman

#45. One of the aims of higher education is to broaden perspectives, and what better way than by a home stay in a really different country, like Bangladesh or Senegal? Time abroad also leaves one more aware of the complex prism of suspicion through which the United States is often viewed. - Author: Nicholas Kristof

#46. It was disconcerting for the novel to seem so different when I re-read it. Of course we are a different person each time we open a book to read it again; we can never really experience it in the same way, just as we can never step into the same stream twice. - Author: Ramona Koval

#47. The different steps and degrees of education may be compared to the artificer's operations upon marble; it is one thing to dig it out of the quarry, and another to square it, to give it gloss and lustre, call forth every beautiful spot and vein, shape it into a column, or animate it into a statue. - Author: Thomas Gray

#48. This was a factory, a sorting house. We were no different from dogs and pigs and cows: all of us were allowed to play when we were small, but then, just before reaching maturity, we were sorted and classified. Being a high school student was the first step toward becoming a domestic animal. - Author: Ryu Murakami

#49. A university is not, thank heavens, a place for vocational instruction, it has nothing to do with training for a working life and career, it is a place for education, something quite different. - Author: Stephen Fry

#50. I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things. - Author: Lana Del Rey

#51. What I support is a whole different approach with regard to drug use, and that is spending less money on the prosecution and incarceration side and more money on prevention and education, which I know works. - Author: Rob Portman

#52. The path to wisdom is paved with humility. - Author: Tim Fargo

#53. Oxford in the Inklings' day was not so different in look and smell from the Oxford of today. Then, as now, one was tempted to fantasize one's surroundings as a Camelot of intellectual knight-errantry or an Eden of serene contemplation. Then, as now, there was bound to be disappointment. - Author: Philip Zaleski

#54. Imagine how different those classrooms could be if hundreds of Nigeria's most talented recent graduates and professionals channeled their energy not only into the country's banks, but into making education in the country a force for transformation. - Author: Wendy Kopp