Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge we must produce educated people.
~ James L. Farmer
The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education.
~ Thomas Piketty
For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.
~ Lafcadio Hearn
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.
~ Wangari Maathai
Browsing for books with a mouse and screen is not nearly as joyful an act as wandering the stacks and getting lost in the labyrinthine corridors of knowledge. The best libraries are places of imagination, education and community. The best libraries have mystery to them.
~ Sam Weller
If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'
~ Ben Carson
As African economies boom and businesses are created, one of the big questions this growth raises is that of third-level education: how can Africa develop a knowledge infrastructure to rival that of the west, a sort of Harvard University in Africa?
~ Richard Attias
As education becomes dematerialized, demonetized and democratized, every man, woman and child on the planet will be able to reap the benefits of knowledge. We're rapidly heading toward a world of education abundance.
~ Peter Diamandis
Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
~ Horace
I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.
~ William Glasser
The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.
~ Warren Bennis
I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew. To say you've got to inquire, you've got to be testing your knowledge all the time in order to be more effective in what you're doing.
~ Thabo Mbeki
If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.
~ Brad Sherman
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
~ Brooks Atkinson
The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
~ John Dewey
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
~ Francis Bacon
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe drinking water.
~ Peter Singer
Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.
~ Ryan White
Americans must place greater emphasis on the more subtle dimensions of national power, such as innovation, education, the balance of force and diplomacy, and the quality of political leadership.
~ Zbigniew Brzeziński
Education is the mother of leadership.
~ Wendell Willkie
I fully support U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his Global Education First Initiative and the work of U.N. Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown and the respectful president of the U.N. General Assembly Vuk Jeremic. I thank them for the leadership they continue to give.
~ Malala Yousafzai
In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.
~ Wendy Kopp
Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in countries around the world, there is a constant search for easier solutions.
If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.
Never take your eye off the ball. Always remember that you and everyone on the team is the servant of the cause - in our case, girls' education and young women's leadership in Africa.
~ Ann Cotton
For more than 20 years, Camfed has supported a generation of African girls and women with access to secondary and higher education, employment opportunities, and, ultimately, into positions of leadership.
I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.
~ Alan Autry
Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement.
~ Ron Lewis
One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.
~ Sarah Jessica Parker
Without any formal personal finance education or trustworthy resources to tell them otherwise, the majority of people in the 18-to-24-year-old age bracket do not know how to use credit effectively, tackle debt or make wise decisions when it comes to spending.
~ Alexa Von Tobel
Reimbursement is a major determinant of how medicine is practiced. When reimbursement changes, so do medical practice and medical education.
~ Dean Ornish
Considering community support and cost-benefit analysis, I have supported earmarks for projects of high public purpose involving such areas as higher education, alternative energy, transportation, medical research and military infrastructure.
~ Jeff Fortenberry
For every dollar we have given to athletics, we have given about 27 to higher education or medical research.
~ Joe Jamail
It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion.
~ Sam Harris
Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.
~ Ezekiel Emanuel
I've never met a person who does not want a safer world, better medical care and education for their children, and peace with their neighbours. I just don't meet those people. What I meet, over and over again, as I travel around, is that the essential human condition is optimistic - in every one of these places.
~ Eric Schmidt
The term 'Xiaokang' is used today to refer to a society where people can receive education, get paid through work, have access to medical services and old-age support, have a shelter and more than enough food and clothing, and lead a well-off life.
~ Li Keqiang
The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance.
~ Lewis Thomas
