Americans are a decade behind Canada when it comes to sex education and understanding their bodies.

If you go and talk to most people they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say 'Oh well that must be true.'

All claims of education notwithstanding the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.

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 n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Data is not information information is not knowledge knowledge is not understanding understanding is not wisdom.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people unable to go to school were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

But what I'd really like to tell you is I never dreamed of being in the Hall of Fame. Standing here with all these great players was beyond any of my dreams.

Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real of the possible.

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path not chasing after the dreams of others.

You must recognize embrace and be honest about what is real for you today and allow that understanding to inform the choices you make. Only then will you be able to build the future of your dreams.

I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions their insecurities people's distress and their hopes and dreams.

It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.

I've always said that one night I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere I'm standing on grass and it's raining and I'm with the person I love and I know I'm at the very point I've been dreaming of getting to.

Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications.

User-centered design means understanding what your users need how they think and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process.

Everyone wants an iPhone but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product it's an understanding of human nature.

A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience the better design we will have.

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding As a moth brushes a window with its wing.

Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.

For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.

I'm sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If I see a particular need I do try to help. But there's a lot that can be achieved by putting a check in the right place and shutting up about it.

Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage don't move to California.