Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
— Zhuangzi
Collective decisions about health care and education are best answered on a local level.
— Zephyr Teachout
Anyone who's been an usher knows it's a training in resilience. But you get such a film education. And the popcorn's free.
— Zawe Ashton
Economy I consider a virtue & should be practiced by all; there is certainly no way in which money can be laid out than in the education of children.
— Zachary Taylor
Unfortunately, the mechanism for doing philanthropy in a structured way isn't yet in place in India. I already do a fair bit and support various causes such as education, sanitation, health. But selling costly drugs at affordable prices is philanthropy in itself.
— Yusuf Hamied
I think the main parenting or education you do for your children is by way of being, and not by way of having guidelines or some agenda. I think that life itself is constantly bringing learning opportunities.
— Yossi Ghinsberg
I have always said, '40 is the new 20,' and I truly believe that, but it for sure takes a lot of hard work, education, and discipline to keep it all together as we make our way to 50 and beyond.
— Yolanda Hadid
Once, Azamgarh was known in the field of education and literature, but the Samajwadi Party turned it into a stronghold of terrorism.
— Yogi Adityanath
We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
— Yakov Smirnoff
I'm pretty sure my mom is the only person on the planet who thinks that she got cancer so that I could find my calling in life, but as I started to build this company, all my years of useless education, random jobs, and weird interests merged into this serendipitous moment.
— Yael Cohen
Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
— Xavier Becerra
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
— Woody Allen
I used the Nobel money to buy a house and for the education of my children.
— Wolfgang Ketterle
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
— Winston Churchill
When men and women, boys and girls, are denied the right to education, the right to own land, the access to basic services like healthcare and clean water, a fair price for the crops they grow, a fair wage for the work they do, or the right to be part of making decisions that affect them, the result is poverty.
— Winnie Byanyima
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
— Wilson Mizner
I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.
— Wilma Mankiller
Primary education was in the first place to teach people to be good people. Only secondary education teaches people to also be useful people.
— Zhang Zhidong
The core of my platform is to change the role of money in politics, support public education and break up monopoly power. All of these are fundamental prerequisites to a responsive democracy.
Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.
— Zaha Hadid
I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.
— Zach Gilford
I tell you, in this country, you don't get much of an education. Throughout high school, through junior college, which is all I went, I didn't know anything about the annihilation of all the Indian nations that were here.
— Yuri Kochiyama
Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.
— Yoshihiko Noda
Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.
— Yolanda Adams
Our education system must promote nationalism but should be modern and relevant to contemporary needs.
My children receive education that greatly emphasizes the fact they are part of a human group that has tradition, collective memory, and a state. I am a great believer in the need for Israel to be a Jewish state. I certainly believe my children will pass that on to their children.
— Yair Lapid
The golden period for all the castes, including BCs, was when Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy was at the helm. An education revolution was witnessed during that period, when many students had become engineers and doctors.
— Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy
I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.
— Wynton Marsalis
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
My father was a schoolteacher, and so I had the advantage of both western educational instruction in the school, as well as what you might call the process of imbibing the traditional processes of education instruction around me.
— Wole Soyinka
A tax system is important because of what it can pay for, but also for how it works. When we pay taxes, we expect something back from the state; it strengthens the relationship and accountability between us and our governments. It also pays for what private finance shouldn't: our needs for healthcare, education and social security.
Governments should end the extreme concentration of wealth in order to end poverty. This means tackling tax dodging but also increasing taxes on wealth and high incomes to ensure a more level playing field and generate the billions of dollars needed to invest in healthcare, education, and job creation.
When you're 14, 15, the most important thing in your life should be education, because that's what's going to set you up for success as an adult. So if coming out now will hinder your education, maybe we take some time to think about whether the time is right or not. Those are my concern.
— Wilson Cruz
The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.
— William Temple
In order to defend the Chinese race, one must first defend the Confucian culture; and in order to defend the Confucian culture, one must first defend the State. This is because what preserves the race relies upon intelligence, which is in turn nurtured by Confucian education.
Americans must place greater emphasis on the more subtle dimensions of national power, such as innovation, education, the balance of force and diplomacy, and the quality of political leadership.
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.
If you're a woman of colour and you have any level of education, you have to adapt.
— Yvonne Orji
It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.
— Yuan T. Lee
My life is raw, authentic, and focused on giving back to the journey God has given me; I want to leave this earth a better place with answers and education on Lyme and invisible chronic disease.
When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.
— Yoko Ono
I would like to get a good education, get married, and have kids.
— Yana Kudryavtseva
You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.
I will venture to maintain that where the teacher is not pleasing to the pupil, there is no education.
— Xenophon
Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.
We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.
— Woodrow Wilson
Education is lacking in most of those who pontificate.
Money doesn't just buy a nice car; it also buys better education or healthcare. Increasingly, it can buy impunity from justice, a pliant media, favorable laws, business advantage, and even elections. This, in turn, perpetuates the policies that allow a tiny elite to accumulate ever more wealth at the expense of the majority.
My own life values were shaped in great part by my mother, who instigated women's clubs in my village. Women were able to organize and stand together. What inspired me most about their work was the power it gave them to assert their rights and the rights of their daughters, be it education or property inheritance.
In college, I was an education major and qualified for several jobs. But the fame that came with the Olympic medals was too threatening to many people.
— Wilma Rudolph
