“Education is the transmission of civilization.” ~~ Will Durant
Filed Under: Character, Education, Freedom, Will Durant
“I’m going to insist that we’ve got decent funding, enough teachers, and computers in the classroom, but unless you turn off the television set and get over a certain anti-intellectualism that I think pervades some low-income communities, our children are not going to achieve.” ~~ Barack Obama
“The world’s urban poor and the illiterate are going to be increasingly disadvantaged and are in danger of being left behind. The web has added a new dimension to the gap between the first world and the developing world. We have to start talking about a human right to connect.” ~~ Tim Berners-Lee
“When somebody has learned how to program a computer … You’re joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine.” ~~ Tim Berners-Lee
“We know that education is everything to our children’s future. We know that they will no longer just compete for good jobs with children from Indiana, but children from India and China and all over the world.” ~~ Barack Obama
“The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think.” ~~ Bill Beattie
“There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.” ~~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.” ~~ Maya Angelou
