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In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect. ”
Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems. ”
Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones. ”
We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have education that fits not the few but the many for the business of life. ”
A boy or girl who has gone through the eight grades should possess a complete, practical education and should have received special training in some specific line of work, fitting him or her to earn a livelihood. ”
For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life. ”
We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20? ”
We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through. ”
We will ensure that associates continue to possess unsurpassed product knowledge and maintain their dedication to customer service and respect for their colleagues and for the communities in which they work and live. ”
We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men. ”