Quotes about "Education & Learning"

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries. ”

History is a race between education and catastrophe. ”

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. ”

I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town. ”

In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics. ”

Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere. ”

Live a life full of humility, gratitude, intellectual curiosity, and never stop learning. ”

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers. ”

I train three, four, five times a week, protein six times a day, resistance training for at least 45 minutes... it's so very boring. It's really painful. It's laborious. ”

As a former recipient of these services I can honestly say that the overwhelming majority of TANF recipients are hard-working Americans who are down on their luck, and just want an opportunity to better their lives and those of their family through work and access to education. ”