I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.
— William T. Wiley
The best sex education for kids is when Daddy pats Mommy on the fanny when he comes home from work.
— William Masters
At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.
— William John Wills
It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.
— William J. Clinton
The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
— William Inge
I am most peremptorily of opinion against putting children extremely forward. If they desire it themselves, I would not balk them, for I love to attend to these unsophisticated indications. But otherwise, 'festina lente' is my maxim in education.
— William Godwin
As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.
Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.
— William Glasser
I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.
This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
— William Butler Yeats
If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely to the pupils at the best public schools, there would be a national outcry - and yet this is precisely what the Olympics represents in terms of sports funding.
— Will Self
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
— Will Rogers
As we develop and get quicker with technology in America, it's like we're downgrading if you look at the investment in education... that's the thing that worries me.
— will.i.am
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
— Will Durant
Now, women are expected to be equal to men in so many capacities - financially, career-wise, in education - yet the one disconnect was, and is, with relationships.
— Whitney Wolfe Herd
Education is the most powerful tool countries have for boosting economic growth, increasing prosperity, and forging more just, peaceful and equitable societies.
— Wendy Kopp
My family gave me the best in education.
— William Standish Knowles
No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.
— William Law
If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
— William Jennings Bryan
In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.
Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
— William Hazlitt
Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.
He that loves reading has everything within his reach.
Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.
If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.
'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
— William Congreve
All real education is the architecture of the soul.
— William Bennett
That tertiary education is under a sustained assault by a political and - it often seems - social consensus that equates all education with training for increased productivity, only makes academe a still more promising environment for a contrarian.
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
My father didn't do a lot of direct education. My mother was the direct educator. She would put on these movies on American Movie Classics when we got cable, after my parents got divorced, which took like four or five years.
— Wesley Morris
Our laws guarantee all students the right to a K-12 education, regardless of their immigration status.
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
— William Morris
Certain people are just saying, 'Look, I'm a businessperson and I have to run a business effectively and I want people who are going to do the job, who have the training and the education and the personality traits - the soft skills.'
— William Julius Wilson
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
— William James
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
SEAL training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education and not your social status.
— William H. McRaven
Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.
To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.
I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.
If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
My great-grandfather was a man of great vision, drive, and native intelligence, with some human flaws amplified by limited education, limited social range, and questionable influence from some of his advisers.
— William Clay Ford, Jr.
Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.
— Will Smith
There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
I think education is one of the greatest tools for most kids not only to expand their book knowledge, but their ability to experience new things - I think it opens more doors than any other experience I can think of.
— Will Estes
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Countries have largely been left alone to handle or ignore their educational problems as they see fit. In part, this was because we assumed that the contexts and challenges were so different from nation to nation that education could not be tackled at the international level.
