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Texas is a national leader in education reform and student achievement. Through our college- and career-ready standards and assessments, strong school accountability, and a focus on educator development, we have created an education system that prepares our students for success after graduation.

That a country, [England], eminently distinguished for its mechanical and manufacturing ingenuity, should be indifferent to the progress of inquiries which form the highest departments of that knowledge on whose more elementary truths its wealth and rank depend, is a fact which is well deserving the attention of those who shall inquire into the causes that influence the progress of nations.

That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.

That excitement about Kossuth, consider how characteristic, but superficial, it was!--only another kind of politics or dancing. Men were making speeches to him all over the country, but each expressed only the thought, or the want of thought, of the multitude. No man stood on truth. They were merely banded together, as usual one leaning on another, and all together on nothing.

That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable.

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

That is what we have in revisionist historians. It starts with their own atheism, their own unbelief, and then they go back and attempt to revise and rewrite history in their own image.

That's not how most of Hollywood does it-which helps to explain why Pixar does so well. How are you changing the game in your field? What is your distinctive take on how your industry operates? Do you work as distinctively as you compete?

That's what reading was for my mother, and became for me - a way to escape, a private time machine, a place that began with moral instruction but soon morphed into empathy and imagination.

That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with a book in your hands.

That the Texas Legislature, that the Texas school boards, the Texas teachers, we collectively know best how to educate our children, rather than some bureaucrat in Washington.

That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.

The 21st century is the century of knowledge. Knowledge, science and education will have the power and strength to embrace the entire universe.

The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things that education must try to produce.

The accumulation of facts, even if interesting in themselves, should not constitute the main part of education; these facts, whether they be of classical learning or knick-knacks of history, will be of little use unless the mind has been trained to see them in proper perspective.

The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.

The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual, and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society.

The aim of education should not be to teach how to use human energies to improve the environment, for we are finally beginning to realize that the cornerstone of education is the development of the human personality, and that in this regard education is of immediate importance for the salvation of mankind.

The aim of education is growth: the aim of growth is more growth

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom.

The American people owe it to themselves, and to the cause of free Government, to prove by their establishments for the advancement and diffusion of knowledge, that their political Institutionsare as favorable to the intellectual and moral improvement of Man as they are conformable to his individual and social rights.

The approach of intellect or noesis will forever be an effete and limited sort of thing by contrast with the vigor and color of gnosis; but in academia there is virtually nothing but noetic minds to be found, and the very idea of gnosis is alien and untranslatable, not to mention discreditable.

The artist is today and has been for many years, despite his absence of merit, simply a spoiled child. So many honors, so much money bestowed on men without souls and without education.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

The assumption of all education is that learning will be directed toward constructive ends and I'm convinced that colleges should support students in their determination to be useful, self-sufficient, and productive.

The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

The atmosphere [in the school lunchroom] is not quite that of a prison, because the students are permitted to talk quietly, under the frowning scrutiny of teachers standing around on duty, during their meal-they are not supposed to talk while standing in line, though this rule is only sporadically enforced.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know.

The best and most important part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

The best I could say about third grade was that it was a more or less continuous state of dread.

The best hope for Australia is the ballot box and good education.

the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.

The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts.

The best learners... often make the worst teachers. They are, in a very real sense, perceptually challenged. They cannot imagine what it must be like to struggle to learn something that comes so naturally to them.

The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

The best service that can be rendered to a Country, next to that of giving it liberty, is in diffusing the mental improvement equally essential to the preservation, and the enjoyment of the blessing.

The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

The biggest dilemma in education today is the differing visions of what an educated person means. To do well on tests is often more important than helping young people really be prepared to deal with the tests of life.