“The highest development was in the Egyptian and Cabalistic systems, and it was blended with Christian thought in the schools of the Neo-Platonists and the Gnostics...Its studies were only kept alive during the Dark Ages among the Jews who were the chief exponents of its Cabalistic aspect...and it is still alive today.” StillsAgeTodaySchoolChristianDarkStudyAliveDevelopmentHighestAspectJewChiefsDark AgesLive For TodayEgyptianExponents Author:Dion Fortune
“Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, the Web or social media. They are much more proficient with technology than prior generations since they use it for all their school work, communication and entertainment.” UseAgeTodaySchoolYoungSocialTechnologyGenerationsMediaCommunicationPhonesEntertainmentSocial MediaExposedYoung WomenYoung AgeMobileTabletsMobile PhonesSchool Work Author:Susan Wojcicki
“There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women's stories. God, the BBC's practically run by women.” WholeStoriesRunningTodaySchoolBabyProducersEditorsGrammarPillsSchool EducationBoomersBaby BoomerGrammar School Author:Julie Walters
“Everyone today is like, 'Shailene, you're getting so much buzz. How does the feel?' It's the most odd question because it's like asking a kid who got into Cornell how it feels to be the top of your class at one of the Ivy League schools. How do you answer that? You just go, 'I don't know.” KnowsFeelsDoeKidsTodaySchoolAnswersClassAskingOddLeagueIvyBuzzIvy LeagueIvy League Schools Author:Shailene Woodley
“I remember hearing stories from my mother and father about their parents and grandparents when they were taken off the reservation, taken to the boarding schools, and pretty much taught to be ashamed of who they were as Native Americans. You can feel that impact today.” FeelsStoriesTodaySchoolRememberMotherFatherParentTakenTaughtImpactHearingAshamedNativeNative AmericanGrandparentMother And FatherReservationsParents And Grandparents Author:Chaske Spencer
“I was pretty much a mess out of primary school. I really experienced a lot more of that stuff from the ages of seven to twelve, where there was a really popular girl at my school, and I was obsessed with her, like you'd go to jail for that stuff today. I'm so embarrassed to say this, but I was in tears one day, because I couldn't sit next to her.” AgeTodaySchoolGirlNextStuffTearsLike YouOne DaySevenMessPrimariesObsessedJailTwelveEmbarrassedPrimary SchoolReally PopularPopular Girl Author:Charlize Theron
“Martin Luther King challenged the conscience of my generation, and his words and his legacy continue to move generations to action today at home and around the world. His love and faith is alive in millions of Americans who volunteer each day in soup kitchens or in schools, or who refused to ignore the suffering of millions they'd never met in far-away places when a tsunami brought unthinkable destruction. His vision and his passion is alive in churches and on campuses when millions stand up against the injustice of discrimination anywhere, or the indifference that leaves too many behind.” WorldHomeTodayActionSchoolMovingSufferingPassionChurchBehindsVisionMillionsAliveGenerationsKingsMetsConscienceDestructionInjusticeDiscriminationAround The WorldLegacyIndifferenceKitchenEach DayFar AwayVolunteerSoupHis LoveLutherMy GenerationCampusUnthinkableTsunamiFaith And LoveSoup Kitchens Author:John F. Kerry
“Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot educate today's youth, what will we do in 1970 when elementary enrollment will be 5 million greater than 1960? And high school enrollment will rise by 5 million. College enrollment will increase by more than 3 million.” IfsYearsTodaySchoolAbilityMoneyEducationMillionsGreaterYouthCollegeHigh SchoolIncreaseEducateGraduates1960sGraduating High SchoolEnrollmentToday's Youth Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“The higher education so much needed today is not given in the school, is not to be bought in the market place, but it has to be wrought out in each one of us for himself; it is the silent influence of character on character.” CharacterTodaySchoolGivenInfluenceTeachingNeededHigherSilentHigher Education Book:Aequanimitas Source: Aequanimitas
“I'm sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They'll be shocked, just as today we're shocked with cannibalism.” MenChildrenMadeWarTodaySchoolStudyHe ManSomedayAbsurdityShockedPeacemakingCannibalism Author:Golda Meir
“Today, 8 million adult Americans, more than the entire population of Michigan, have not finished 5 years of school. Nearly 20 million have not finished 8 years of school. Nearly 54 million - more than one-quarter of all America - have not even finished high school.” YearsTodaySchoolAmericaEducationMillionsHigh SchoolAdultsPopulationFinishedQuartersMichigan Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.” YearsLooksTodaySchoolCertainEducationWonderTeachTwentiesEducationalPrimitiveSchooledPublic EducationGreat EducationSchools And EducationSchool EducationGreat EducationalBest EducationValue Of EducationEducation TodayEducational Change Author:John W. Gardner
“The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.” WayChildrenTodaySchoolGirlResultsBoysDirectOur ChildrenTreatedArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisBoy And Girl Author:Basmah bint Saud
“Mormon prophets have continuously taught the sublime truth that God the Eternal Father was once a mortal man who passed through a school of earth life similar that through which we are now passing. He became God - an exalted being - through obedience to the same eternal Gospel truths that we are given opportunity today to obey.” MenTodaySchoolEarthFatherOpportunityGivenTaughtEternalPassingPassingsMortalsObedienceProphetSublimeExaltedEarth LifeGiven Opportunity Author:Milton R. Hunter
“My books have done extremely well, I know. But I don't honestly feel much different from when I began to write. I still think we have a long way to go. I suppose my name means more in Nigeria today than it did five years ago. But I feel the job that literature should do in our community has not even started. It's not yet part of the life of the nation. We are still at the beginning. It's a big beginning, because now we are catching the next generation in the schools. When I was their age, I had nothing to read that had any relevance to my own environment.” ThinkingKnowsWayFeelsShouldWritingYearsWellsMeanLongStillsBookDifferentDoneBigsAgeTodaySchoolJobsNextLiteratureNamesNationsCommunityMy OwnEnvironmentFiveGenerationsYears AgoHonestlyFive YearsLong WayNext GenerationCatchingRelevanceOur CommunityNigeriaLong Way To Go Book:Conversations with Chinua Achebe Source: Conversations with Chinua Achebe
“The state of our educational system is a disgrace to our country. We have an elementary and secondary school system in which close to half of the youngsters never graduate properly. It's a disgrace that there is more illiteracy today than there was 100 years ago.” YearsCountryStatesTodaySchoolHalfYears AgoEducationalOur CountryGraduatesDisgraceYoungstersEducational SystemSchool SystemIlliteracySecondary School Author:Milton Friedman
“I've always been interested in history, but they never taught Negro history in the public schools...I don't see how a history of the United States can be written honestly without including the Negro. I didn't [paint] just as a historical thing, but because I believe these things tie up with the Negro today. We don't have a physical slavery, but an economic slavery. If these people, who were so much worse off than the people today, could conquer their slavery, we can certainly do the same thing....I am not a politician. I'm an artist, just trying to do my part to bring this thing about.” PeopleIfsTryingBelieveStatesTodaySchoolArtistI BelieveUnitedUnited StatesWrittenEconomicTaughtPoliticianSlaveryHistoricalPaintIncludingHonestlyConquerTiesPublic SchoolEconomic Slavery Author:Jacob Lawrence
“The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school [in the 1960s] may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.” MenMayHas BeensStillsTodaySchoolGivenGoneHonorEthicsProfessorsGraduatesElites1960sScholarshipReservedYaleGraduate SchoolWasps Author:Camille Paglia
“You don't know the things in your childhood that influence you. You can't possibly know them. People today try to analyze the early environment and the reasons for something that happened, but if you look at children of the same family -- children who have identical parents, go to identical schools, have an almost identical upbringing, and yet who have totally different experiences and neuroses -- you realize that what influences the children is not so much the obvious externals as their emotional experiences. Of course any psychiatrist knows that.” PeopleIfsKnowsTryingLooksChildrenDifferentReasonTodaySchoolCoursesParentRealizingEnvironmentHappenedInfluenceChildhoodEmotionalObviousYour ChildrenIdenticalPsychiatristUpbringingNeurosisDifferent Experiences Author:Louis Auchincloss
“In my day, they were not interested in making boys happy. Those schools were made for the types of men who would become quite successful. It was brutal. They are not brutal today. They are country clubs today.” MenMadeCountryTodaySchoolBoysSuccessfulTypeClubsNot InterestedBrutalCountry Clubs Author:Louis Auchincloss
“I grew up in the 1920s and 1930s in a nouveau riche world, where money was spent wildly, and I'm still living in one!... The private schools are all jammed with long waiting lists; the clubs -- all the old clubs -- are jammed with long waiting lists today; the harbors are clogged with yachts; there has never been a more material society than the one we live in today.... Where is this 'vanished world' they talk about? I don't think the critics have looked out the window!” ThinkingWorldLongStillsTodaySchoolWaitingMaterialsGrewGrew UpWindowCriticsClubsListsHarbors1930sYachtPrivate SchoolNouveau Riche Author:Louis Auchincloss
“On this day I remember words that have stayed with me since my childhood and which matter a great deal to me today, my school motto: "I will try my outmost". This is my promise to all of the people of Britain and now let the work of change begin.” PeopleTryingMatterTodaySchoolRememberDealsChildhoodPromiseBritainThis DayMotto Author:Gordon Brown
“We know today about nutrition and we know about exercise. There's no reason for anybody to be sick and tired, fat and out of shape -- it's ridiculous! This has got to be taught in the schools. It's got to be taught in kindergarten. That's when kids should first get the idea that the most important thing in your life is your health and your body.” KnowsShouldFirstsImportantIdeasReasonBodyKidsTodaySchoolLife IsTaughtExerciseShapesSickImportant ThingsTiredYour BodyRidiculousFatsNo ReasonNutritionKindergartenImportant Things In Your Life Author:Jack LaLanne
“When I was writing songs or performing or producing or dabbling in movies or even putting my career on hold to go to art school, I was just following my muse. A woman who did that then was criticized for having no direction. Today they call it versatility.” WritingArtTodaySchoolSongCareersFollowingPerformingMuseWriting SongsArt SchoolVersatilityDabbling Author:Jackie DeShannon
“We forget today that Britain still depends for its livelihood and, indeed, its day-to-day survival, on the sea. But the Royal Navy is now pitifully small and has been reduced in size by the current Government, seeking economies to finance its social programmes. Fine while there is no threat to our security. But what use would schools and hospitals be if we could not protect our imports?” IfsHas BeensStillsUseGovernmentTodaySchoolSocialForgetEconomySeaSecurityFineDependsProtectSurvivalThreatSizeCurrentsSeekingFinanceBritainHospitalsDay To DayRoyalNavyProgrammesLivelihoodImportsRoyal Navy Author:John Keegan
“Many years ago Christian pioneers had to fight savage Indians. Today missionaries of these former cultures are being sent via the public schools to heathenize our children.” YearsChildrenTodaySchoolChristianReligionCultureFightingYears AgoOur ChildrenFormerSavagesPublic SchoolPioneers Author:Phyllis Schlafly
“Consciousness-based education, which I am helping to promote, is basically the same education that good schools are giving today with Transcendental Meditation added for the students, teachers, staff, and principal.” GivingHelpingTodaySchoolConsciousnessTeacherMeditationStudentsPrincipalStaffTranscendentalTeacher StudentTranscendental MeditationGood School Author:David Lynch
“Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.” PeopleThinkingFirstsKindTwoShowsTodaySchoolClothesHigh SchoolAdolescenceUnimportantShowing OffNew Clothes Book:Strider Source: Strider
“Today at school I wrote an essay about Flag Day which was so beautiful, but ever so beautiful - for I even used words without really knowing what they meant.” TodaySchoolBeautifulUsedKnowingFlagsEssaysFlag Day Book:Descoberta Do Mundo Source: Descoberta Do Mundo
“Today age segregation has passed all sane limits. Not only are fifteen-year-olds isolated from seventy-year-olds but social groups divide those in high school from those in junior high, and those who are twenty from those who are twenty-five. There are middle-middle-age groups, late-middle-age groups, and old-age groups - as though people with five years between them could not possibly have anything in common.” PeopleYearsAgeTodaySchoolSocialCommonFiveGroupsMiddleLimitsLateHigh SchoolTwentiesOld AgeFive YearsDividesIsolatedSaneFifteenSeventiesSegregationMiddle AgesJuniorsTwenty FiveFifteen YearsJunior HighSocial Groups Author:Suzanne Gordon
“The factory model of education is the wrong model for the 21st century. Today, our schools must prepare all students for college and careers-and do far more to personalize instruction and employ the smart use of technology.” UseTodaySchoolCareersTechnologyCenturyStudentsCollegeModelsSmartInstructionFactories21st CenturyUse Of Technology Author:Arne Duncan
“We believed we could prepare our kids for a more competitive world. And today, our younger students have earned the highest math and reading scores on record. Our high school graduation rate has hit an all-time high. And more Americans finish college than ever before.” WorldKidsTodaySchoolReadingRecordsStudentsCollegeHighestHigh SchoolRateMathAll TimeScoreHigh School GraduationSchool Graduation Author:Barack Obama
“[On a high school visit by Destiny's Child:] Then they appeared, golden Glamazons resplendent in hot pants the size of a dryer sheet and gold stiletto boots. The kids in the front row, clearly on funkiness overload, had the walleyed look of the Today's Catch section of the supermarket.” LooksChildrenKidsTodaySchoolDestinyFrontsHigh SchoolGoldHotSizeGoldenPantsBootsSheetsSectionsSupermarketsOverloadDryersStilettosHot Pants Author:Jancee Dunn
“There are complaints that it's hard to remember what you can say and what you can't, which words are 'in' for certain groups and which words are not. And yet we started out learning that the 'kitty' on the sidewalk was actually a squirrel, we learned to differentiate between fire trucks and school buses, and many people today know the difference between linguini, fettucini, and rotini. The same people who say they can't remember the 'right' terms in referring to people are often whizzes at remembering which professional sports teams have moved where and are now called what.” PeopleKnowsHardTodaySchoolRememberPoliticalCertainSportsTermDifferencesFireGroupsTeamMovedBusComplaintsTruckPolitical CorrectnessReferringSidewalkSquirrelsDifferentiateSports TeamKittiesProfessional SportsSchool Bus Author:Rosalie Maggio
“Teachers, parents and school administrators: Today's teachers can create a Planet of Peace. The communication process you will learn by reading Nonviolent Communication is the cornerstone.” TodaySchoolReadingProcessParentTeacherPlanetsCommunicationNonviolent CommunicationCornerstonesAdministrators Author:Robert Muller
“The quality of education today decides the tomorrow of Gujarat... Government may build schools, but the future can be built by the schools only. The key responsibility of building Gujarat's tomorrow thus lies with the schools.” MayGovernmentTodaySchoolLyingEducationQualityResponsibilityBuildingKeysTomorrowBuiltIndiaEducation TodayGujarat Author:Narendra Modi
“When you put more than a million kids in school, you take a plane today and go to Haiti, you cannot see the results. You will see the results in 30 years when you see a different type of Haitian.” YearsDifferentKidsTodaySchoolResultsMillionsTypePlanesHaitiHaitian Author:Michel Martelly