Hans Haacke

Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines.

German Artist

Terry Pratchett

It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.

English Author

Frans de Waal

I am personally not against keeping animals at zoos, as they serve a huge educational purpose, but treating them well and with respect seems the least we could do, and with 'we' I mean not just zoo staff, but most certainly also the public.

Dutch Scientist

Esther McVey

We know that children living in a household with someone in work do better in school, have better educational attainment, and are more likely to have a job later in life than children growing up in a home where no one works.

British Politician

Harvey Cushing

The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers.

American Scientist

Fidel Castro

Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.

Statesman

Jay Shetty

How do we merge entertainment and education? We live in a world where entertainment wins, but if entertainment can have an educational heart, then we can really change people's lives.

British Celebrity

Flea

My whole musical life has been an educational process, and I'm just furthering my education and filling in the blanks. There's stuff that I want to know that I don't know.

Australian Musician

Marcus Garvey

Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.

Jamaican Publisher

James S. Coleman

The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board.

American Sociologist

Use 'educational' when discussing anything about schools, teaching, or student learning.

School Context

Educational also refers to activities or materials that teach, not just in formal school settings.

Beyond Classrooms

'Educational' implies that an activity helps develop practical skills or knowledge.

Skill Development

The term can be used for informal learning outside formal education systems.

Informal Learning

When something is described as educational, it's designed with the purpose of teaching.

Intended Purpose

For material to be educational, it should enlighten or provide deep insight.

Serves Enlightenment

The word 'educational' adjusts to diverse topics from arts to science.

Contextually Versatile

 because each of these systems is educational. That's what I'm hopeful about, about even this really grim stuff, that if you can take it and look at it properly, it's actually in itself a piece of education that allows you to start seeing how complex systems come together and work and maybe be able to apply that knowledge elsewhere in the world. James, it's such an important discussion,

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 We also have a classroom hives project, where -- this is a nonprofit venture -- we're spreading the word around the world for how honeybee hives can be taken into the classroom or into the museum setting, behind glass, and used as an educational tool. This hive that you see here has been

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 giving them some extra income, giving them support and coaching. And really trying to make that more effective and make that a calling to which teachers can aspire. Yeah -- instead of beating up the bad teachers, which has created morale problems all through the educational community,

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 legislation was passed that actually provided individuals with autism with resources, with access to educational materials that would help them. With that increased awareness, more parents, more pediatricians, more educators learned to recognize the features of autism.

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 in the quantity and quality needed to keep this innovation engine going, so companies are finding innovative ways to overcome this, but in the end it does not absolve the government of the responsibility for creating this educational structure.

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 and in our educational activities we have taken almost 7 000 kids to visit penguins for the first time and some of these kids they live very close to them so we are helping to connect people with pain with nature through the

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 Well I will show you here. I will use these card boxes in which your notebooks came. They are quite useful for educational purposes. Each card box is one billion people. And there are two billion children in the world.

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 But through educational campaigns, sustainable logging practices, and cooperation with local communities, deforestation may begin to slow down helping to preserve rainforests for many generations to come.

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 When you think of natural history museums, you probably picture exhibits filled with ancient lifeless things, like dinosaurs meteroites, and gemstones. But behind that educational exterior,

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 and it continues to grow finally as a way of providing external motivation for institutions I believe that African governments and educational leaders need to come