Educating Quotes (page 46)

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• education
• government
• govern

Better to be uneducated than educated by your government. Penn Jillette

• education
• today
• best

The Court has a special responsibility to ensure that the Constitution works in practice. While education, including the transmission of our civic values from one generation to the next, must play the major role in maintaining public confidence in the Court's decisions, the Court too must help maintain public acceptance of its own legitimacy. It can do this best by helping ensure that the Constitution remains "workable" in a broad sense of the term. Specifically, it can and should... Stephen Breyer

• people
• different
• manly

No born Londoner (it is different with people of Scotch or Irish origin) now says 'bloody,' unless he is a man of some education. The word has, in fact, moved up in the social scale and ceased to be a swear word for the purposes of the working classes. The current London adjective, now tacked on to every noun, is -----. No doubt in time -----, like 'bloody,' will find its way into the drawing room and replaced by some other word. George Orwell

• education
• people
• question

[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything. Joseph Heller

• education
• independent
• giving

Intelligence and proper education will give you independence of spirit. Charlotte Bronte

• education
• magic
• ghost

Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. 'Ghosts are transparent. J. K. Rowling

• teacher
• education
• school

My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers. Woody Allen

• education
• people
• giving

The first duty of a government is to give education to the people Simon Bolivar

• positive
• education
• learning

Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it. Stephen Vizinczey

• education
• people
• intelligent

People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices Gary L. Francione

• education
• commandments
• suggestions

It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated. Hilaire Belloc

• education
• thinking
• empowering

In sum, then, "thinking about thinking" has to be a principal ingredient of any empowering practice of education. Jerome Bruner

• cover
• feeling
• mother

Billy covered his head with his blanket. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the mental ward - always got much sicker until she went away. It wasn’t that she was ugly, or had bad breath or a bad personality. She was a perfectly nice, standard-issue, brown-haired, white woman with a high school education. She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone through so much trouble to give him life, and... Kurt Vonnegut

• education
• character
• beauty

Emma Willard told the legislature that the education of women "has been too exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage the charms of youth and beauty" The problem, she said, was that "the taste of men, whatever it might happen to be, has made into a standard for the formation of the female character." Reason and religion teach us, she said, that "we too are primary existences...not the satellites of men. Howard Zinn

• education
• reading
• passion

My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley