Educating Ourselves Quotes

#1. We must take responsibility for educating ourselves. Being part of a 'smart mob' doesn't guarantee that you're a responsible participant or collaborator.

Howard Rheingold

#2. We cannot improve ourselves or our country without improving our educational system and educating ourselves.

Debasish Mridha

#3. I knew we could improve our lives even in jail. We could come out as different men, and we could even come out with two degrees. Educating ourselves was a way to give ourselves the most powerful weapon for freedom.

Nelson Mandela

#4. Do it on the radio." - Educating Rita Saved

Connie Willis

#5. My father was from a secular Jewish family and my mother from a nominally Christian (Episcopalian) one. They were not religious as adults. They did, however, believe in educating their children about the Bible. They viewed this as an essential part of any education.

Mike Berenstain

#6. In subsequent years the groups you named had important roles in educating people about the real issues in Washington and Raleigh, and within the Democratic Party.

Jesse Helms

#7. Being whip is working with members, educating them, and trying to move legislation forward.

Kevin McCarthy

#8. Educating people beyond their intellectual means is a disservice to humanity. A clueless person who knows little is a nuisance; a clueless person who knows a lot is a menace.

George Jonas

#9. Many men believe in the saying that educating women is like allowing the nose of the camel into the tent: eventually the beast will edge in and take up all the room inside.

Geraldine Brooks

#10. As a Goodwill Ambassador for YouthAIDS, I've learned that the face of AIDS is increasingly young and female. By educating young people and empowering them to make the right choices we can stop the spread of HIV/AIDS

Ashley Judd

#11. Enlightening editorial writers is even more difficult than educating educators.

Malcolm Forbes

#12. When we know that educating a girl can change the world, why wait?

Freida Pinto

#13. I have spent my whole life educating myself.

Penelope Wilton

#14. We have done a poor job educating people about education. Only when we have clarified that can we talk about how best to achieve it.

Donna Brazile

#15. Faithfully disciplining (training, educating, correcting) your child in a manner that pleases the Lord is an expression of biblical love. It also is a step of obedience for you as a parent and provides godly direction for your child.

John C. Broger

#16. In the past we couldn't talk to non-union workers. Now we can at least talk to non-union workers so we'll be mobilizing them and educating them not for just six or eight months before an election, but we'll be doing it year-round.

Richard Trumka

#17. the church, like television, is always educating; the only question is, What is it teaching?

Kevin J. Vanhoozer

#18. I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Groucho Marx

#19. In order to stay relevant, you have to stay open to new trends and keep educating yourself. You have to keep evolving.

Natalie Massenet

#20. The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

Samuel Butler

#21. Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path we're currently on, we might one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at the cost of our own humanity.

Charles Colson

#22. The materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing, and that, therefore, changed men are products of other circumstances and changed upbrinding, forgets that it is men that change circumstances and that the educator himself needs educating.

Karl Marx

#23. If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

David W. Wolfe

#24. Educating the masses was intended only to improve the relationship between the top and the bottom of society. Not for changing the nature of the relationship.

John Ralston Saul

#25. One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#26. The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we're doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce.

Tom Robbins

#27. They [Mc Donalds] take people and give them a first job, which enables them to get a second job. They do a very good job of educating troubled young people to be good citizens and they're probably more successful than charter schools.

Charlie Munger

#28. We must do a better job of educating all drivers to be safer on the road.

Johnny Isakson

#29. Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and educating for making a living.

James Wood-Mason

#30. I truly believe the only way we can create global peace is through not only educating our minds, but our hearts and our souls.

Malala Yousafzai

#31. I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time.

Sara Paretsky

#32. There's no educating a smart boy.

Terry Pratchett

#33. I think it's very important for me to work on myself while I'm working on a character, and also it's important how I'm giving to and educating an audience. So I tend to go with people who are complex and substantive.

Judith Light

#34. It's all about educating people to value you as much a they value themselves. If you respect your time, others will too.

Sharon Law Tucker

#35. The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.

George Horace Lorimer

#36. Every society must be intentional about educating its leaders.

Patrick Awuah Jr.