Pastoral Resources

The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.

But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students.

Enhancing revenues will help us improve education and solve our infrastructure problems.

If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.

I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian.

A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality of education our children are receiving because they had not expected me to ask them about it.

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.

You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances.

My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.