Quotes about "Education & Learning"

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete. ”

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny. ”

In future irrigation schemes, water drainage and removal systems should be budgeted from the start of the project. Unfortunately, adding such costs to the original project often will result in a poor return on investment. Society then will have to decide how much it is willing to subsidize new irrigation development. ”

Countries that need monies so that they can provide health care and education and shelter to their people shouldn't have to repay debts that we knowingly lent to bad regimes long since gone; and all illegitimate debts - debts lent to these terrible dictators like Saddam Hussein, like Suharto, like Marcos - must also be canceled. ”

I always put a lot of priority on my education, even if that means taking classes after work or on the weekends. ”

I want to fix education in the world. As soon as I work on that, I am going to work on world hunger and then world peace. ”

For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us. ”

Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the '90s. ”

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society. ”

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way. ”