Calpurnias Education Quotes

We can only transform humanity and create a happier more compassionate world through education. ~ Dalai Lama

With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job. ~ Jennifer Granholm

Wisdom accumulates in the cracks of personal experience and the crevices of bad judgments. ~ Will Craig, Living The Hero's Journey

Pedagogy is always about power, because it cannot be separated from how subjectives are formed, desires mobilized, how some experiences are legitimized and others are not, or how some knowledge is considered acceptable while other forms are excluded from the curriculum. ~ Henry A. Giroux

Young people don't really study the facts; they watch the skewed MSNBC and get a primarily liberal education. ~ Alana Stewart

This is the new paradigm. Everything is changing! You cannot deny that the world is changing at such a fast pace and that what the children learn this year is already becoming outdated next year.
The children who are allowed freedom to pursue their own interests (also known as the "rebels and troublemakers") are creating the business structures of this new paradigm.
You know who I am talking about. Steve Jobs, Richard Branson ... ~ Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

Here are the three great questions which in life we have over and over again to answer: Is it right or wrong? Is it true or false? Is it beautiful or ugly? Our education ought to help us to answer these questions. ~ John Lubbock

Every Cuban has a house to live in, no matter how meager. That house is provided by government. Every Cuban who gets sick can go to a doctor or a hospital and get medical attention while 45 million Americans don't have medical insurance. Every Cuban can get education from the kindergarten through college and they don't have to pay. What is Castro doing that we might benefit from-if we are not too arrogant and falsely proud to see what he is doing in a small nation and what we have not been able to do or not been willing to do in the greatest nation on the earth? ~ Louis Farrakhan

As a kid who failed out of high school as a freshman, I know firsthand and personally that sense of hopelessness and just being - drifting in the wrong direction, having really no hope. And being able to harness that frustration was incredibly valuable in my life. That's one of the reasons I focus so consistently on the foundation of education, because it helps to eviscerate those things that - unemployment, high jobless rates, poverty. ~ Tim Scott

There are four headwinds that are just hitting the American economy in the face: They're demographics, education, debt and inequality, [and] they're powerful enough to cut growth in half. ~ Robert J. Gordon

It is so amazing that this mighty world changes with us when we change. ~ Debasish Mridha

A good education is a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, because each enrich the other. The accumulation of knowledge, while fascinating in itself, is not sufficient without action ~ Howard Zinn

I suppose you are two fathoms deep in mathematics, and if you are, then God help you. For so am I, only with this difference: I stick fast in the mud at the bottom, and there I shall remain. ~ Charles Darwin

The Court has a special responsibility to ensure that the Constitution works in practice. While education, including the transmission of our civic values from one generation to the next, must play the major role in maintaining public confidence in the Court's decisions, the Court too must help maintain public acceptance of its own legitimacy. It can do this best by helping ensure that the Constitution remains "workable" in a broad sense of the term. Specifically, it can and should interpret the Constitution in a way that works for the people of today. ~ Stephen G. Breyer

We often try to solve problems by creating more problems. ~ Debasish Mridha

We put our children through their paces in school not so that they will learn something, or master something, or meet any standards. No. We give them tools so that they can experience the joy, the passion, of creating. All we are doing is saying, "Here, if you know this, there is more you can make; there is another path you can map; there is another song you can compose." School - from pre-K to postdoc programs - exists so that we can all build more from within ourselves and with our colleagues. ~ Marc Aronson

Not every child learns for the same purpose, not every child thrives in the same settings and schools. Limiting a child to just one opportunity does nothing more than limit that child's future. The way forward must involve more public charter schools, which offer parents a tuition-free alternative to their neighborhood school. ~ Rick Perry

Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some extent the natural common sense of mankind has been interfered with to its detriment. ~ John Dewey

Give the child a taste of meditation by creating a climate and atmosphere of love, acceptance and silence. ~ Swami Dhyan Giten

My thoughts are limitless. Social conditioning creates the limits. I like to overtake those and like to go where my thoughts take me. ~ Debasish Mridha

The Nile Project is the performing side of an effort that also includes education in music and environmental issues, raising awareness of the entire Nile basin as an ecosystem. With such vibrant music, the good intentions were a bonus; the Nile Project was a superb example of what I call small-world music, of what happens to traditions in the information age. ~ Jon Pareles

As every slumdweller knew, there were three main ways out of poverty: finding an entrepreneurial niche, as the Husains had found in garbage; politics and corruption, in which Asha placed her hopes; and education. ~ Katherine Boo

It means an educational system which does not simply equip the students to adjust to society, but which enables the student to challenge and to modify, and at times reject, if necessary, the received wisdom of his elders. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson

If you step up the self-education curve, you will come up with more answers than you can use. ~ Jim Rohn

She blinded me with science and failed me in geometry. ~ Thomas Dolby

Most of us find it very difficult to want "Heaven" at all - except in so far as "Heaven" means meeting again our friends who have died. One reason for this difficulty is that we have not been trained: our whole education tends to fix our minds on this world. Another reason is that when the real want for Heaven is present in us, we do not recognize it. C. S. Lewis ~ Randy Alcorn

The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare? ~ Susan George

Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education. ~ James Dyson

Relief, fear, and humiliation. Her parents paid for a pricey prep school education in D.C. She graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown with a degree in political science. She breezed through law school and finished with honors. A dozen megafirms offered her jobs after a federal court clerkship. The first twenty-nine years of her life had seen overwhelming success and little failure. To be discharged in such a manner was crushing. To be escorted out of the building was degrading. This was not just a minor bump in a long, rewarding career. ~ John Grisham

I've done loads of things people have never seen - dramas on BBC4 and plays upstairs at the Royal Court and the Bush - and because I didn't go to drama school, they gave me an education. ~ Rafe Spall

Details are all there are. ~ Taizan Maezumi

Albert Einstein asserted that 'Education is what remains when we have forgotten everything that has been learned at school. ~ Gary Thomas

Success is a creative journey with meaning and purpose. ~ Debasish Mridha

I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind. ~ Sarah Zettel

Self-study is the key to success. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't try to change or tear your brother down, let him make his mistakes and he will come around. ~ Donna Summer

Such as the sun,
let us love everyone,
now feel and behold,
the dance of your spirit
and joy of your soul. ~ Debasish Mridha

Your mind is the most fertile and largest land in the universe. You can grow anything you desire. ~ Debasish Mridha

When you try to do what is right the whole world will find ways to help you. ~ Debasish Mridha

I think that's what all New Zealanders who are fair-minded want - a good chance for everybody to get ahead, whether it's education or housing. ~ David Cunliffe

The educational systems should rely on three solid foundations: enhancing values, life skills, and formal educational curriculum. Each of these bases completes the other, none of them can stand on its own. There is no use of having smart students who don't show respect and compassion, or know how to live by values in life. ~ Noora Ahmed Alsuwaidi

The bottom line: the very best sexuality education at home and in schools is not about prevention, but about creation. Its purpose is to teach young people how to create for themselves enjoyable, caring, and responsible sexual lives. That's the key to healthy development, and also to your becoming your children's most trusted "go-to" person. When young people know that we care most about their long-term well-being --not just keeping them out of trouble-- they see us as trusted guides they can come to us time and time again. ~ Deborah M. Roffman