Quotes about "Education & Learning"

By common consent, most European countries support the maintenance of robust welfare states and are comfortable with taxation systems that support them. ”

I want to see far more decisions taken far closer to the patients, the passengers and the pupils. Far more power for locally and regionally elected politicians who understand best the needs of their areas. And far more say too for the dedicated staff at all levels in health and education. ”

I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them. ”

If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity. ”

In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults. ”

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child. ”

At the age of about eight years, if he is a boy, she turns him over to his father for more Spartan training. ”

Standing up and teaching is grueling, but grueling fun. ”

Furthermore, the spirit of enterprise which had its first intellectual development in England has especially flourished here as well as throughout all of Canada, while the same spirit has become less virile in the land of its origin. ”

General Atomics, the progenitor of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, started life in 1955 when a major military contractor, General Dynamics, feared that the military hardware market might dry up. It began exploring peacetime uses of atomic energy, but abandoned the effort when cold-war military spending took off. ”