“Inasmuch as every family is a part of a state, and these relationships are the parts of a family, and the virtue of the part must have regard to the virtue of the whole, women and children must be trained by education with an eye to the constitution, if the virtues of either of them are supposed to make any difference in the virtues of the state. And they must make a difference: for the children grow up to be citizens, and half the free persons in a state are women.” IfsChildrenPersonsStatesWholeEyeGrowsDifferencesEducationHalfGrowing UpVirtueCitizensConstitutionRegardMaking A Difference Book:Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)
“When it comes to the budget, we know that we shouldn't be cutting more on core investments, like education, that are going to help us grow in the future. And we've already seen the deficit cut in half. It's going down faster than any time in the last 60 years. So why would we make more cuts in education, more cuts in basic research? Nobody thinks that's a good idea.” ThinkingKnowsYearsIdeasHelpingLastsPoliticalPoliticsGrowsMoneyPartyEducationHalfCuttingPolicyResearchStrategyInvestmentCoreIdeologyFasterBudgetsGood IdeasPolitical PartiesDeficitBasic Research Author:Barack Obama
“At a time when the respectable bourgeois youngsters of my generation were college freshmen, oppressed by simian sophomores and affronted with balderdash daily and hourly by chalky pedagogues, I was at large in a wicked seaport of half a million people, with a front seat at every public show, as free of the night as of day, and getting earfuls of instruction in a hundred giddy arcana, none of them taught in schools.... [But] if I neglected the humanities, I was meanwhile laying in all the worldly wisdom of a police lieutenant, a bartender, a shyster lawyer, or a midwife.” PeopleIfsShowsSchoolNightHumanityEducationHalfMillionsGenerationsFrontsTaughtCollegeHundredPoliceLawyerSeatsWickedInstructionOppressedWorldlyNeglectedRespectableBourgeoisMy GenerationYoungstersFreshmanBartenderGiddyMidwifeLieutenantsSophomoreWorldly WisdomCollege Freshmen Author:H. L. Mencken
“I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.” InspirationalBookEnoughMotivationalEyeInspiringEducationHalfReaderBook Readers Author:John Adams
“If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country.” IfsCountrySportsEducationHalfLearningStudentsAmountEntertainmentFree EducationNeurosurgeonsNeurosurgery Author:Benjamin Carson
“The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us.” PersonsWarStatesAmericaNationsWaterUnitedEducationHalfWonderUnited StatesFoodPlanetsAmountCleanIraqSpendingBillionsTerroristDietsUsaAnti WarUnited NationsAdequateAttackingConductingDrinking WaterClean WaterSanitationMilitary SpendingBasic Education Book:Confessions of an Economic Hit Man Source: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
“America is the best half-educated country in the world.” WorldCountryAmericaEducationHalfEducated Author:Nicholas Murray Butler