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God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

God was pitched out of forced schooling on his ear after WWII. This wasn't because of any constitutional proscription-there was none that anyone had been able to find in over a century and a half-but because the political state and corporate economy considered the Western spiritual tradition too dangerous a competitor. And it is.

Good education is linked with good teachers. We need to think how we can have good teachers. India has the capability to produce & export as many teachers to the World as it needs. We need to think about how we can create an environment where children want to become good teachers.

Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree... Bad English will slam doors you don't even know exist.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

Good teachers cost a lot; but, poor teachers cost a lot more.

Good roads, good houses, adequate electricity, good schools or good hospitals in the village are indeed, the parameters of progress. However, in my view, 100 percent literate village is the true symbol of real progress.

Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.

Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty.

Government schooling made people dumber, not brighter; made families weaker; ruined formal religion with its hard-sell exclusion of God; set the class structure in stone by dividing children into classes and setting them against one another; and has been midwife to an alarming concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a fraction of the national community.

Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which is memorization of spelling patterns. In doing so, they ensure that children will neither be able to read nor calculate.

Governments would rather spend their money on another bomber than education, and why do we fear black men when every bit of suffering in our lives has a Caucasian face attached to it?

Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.

Graduation day was a milestone in the most important journey of all - to the centre of oneself.

Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

Great art must proceed to precision and brevity. It presupposes the alert mind of an educated listener who, in a singleact of thinking, includes with every concept all associations pertaining to the complex.

Great minds think for themselves.

Gujarat is the first state in the country where not even a single student is devoid of insurance cover.

Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.

Harvard students have completed more English courses and less forward passes than any school in this generation.

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - where it is written and where it is to be found.

He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

(Heinrich von) Kleist would not be a Prussian if his first thought would not have been orderlinessand he would not be a German if he had not placed all his hopes of developing this inner orderliness into education. Education is the secret of life for him as for every German: studying, learning a lot from books, sitting in lectures, keeping notebooks, listening intently to professors.

He promoted the education of the parish clergy and wrote: He seems to me a very foolish man, and very wretched, who will not increase his understanding while he is in the world, and ever wish and long to reach that endless life where all shall be made clear.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.

He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

He was the kind of kid you did not want to sit by. He kept his boogers in his desk, he wore a neck tie.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it.

He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

He who has no inclination to learn more will be very apt to think that he knows enough.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.

Higher education cannot be a luxury reserved just for a privileged few. It is an economic necessity for every family. And every family should be able to afford it.

Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.

He writes nothing whose writings are not read.

Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.

Higher education isn't just a personal investment. It's a public good that pays off in a more competitive workforce and better-informed and engaged citizens. Every year, we spend nearly $100 billion on corporate welfare, and more than $500 billion on defense spending. Surely ensuring the next generation can compete in the global economy is at least as important as subsidies for big business and military adventures around the globe. In fact, I think we can and must go further - not just making public higher education tuition-free, but reinventing education in America as we know it.

His glory Jesus Christ does not consist in beingplaced without the confines of history; a more real worship is paid to him, by showing that the whole of history is incomprehensible without him.

Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.