Quotes about "Education & Learning"

A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men. ”

The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst, in their own and other races. ”

Education and work are the levers to uplift a people. ”

I think I'm good at training dogs, but none of my dogs agree with me on that. ”

A lot of people think I am the one to turn to for dog behavior issues. I'm not. All you have to do is meet Tucker; you'll know that I'm not an expert at training dogs. ”

Nature has always had more force than education. ”

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all. ”

A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care. ”

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior. ”

My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education. ”