Nicholas Negroponte Quotes

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education.

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• It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Today
  • Education

• Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Work
  • Family
  • Fun

• One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Women
  • Dream
  • Strong

• Perhaps there is no greater evidence that the teachers' union has swung too far out of the mainstream that they both have been a target of near-constant criticism from Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Education
  • Criticism
  • Target

• I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Think
  • Problems
  • Abuse

• A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • May
  • Simple
  • Present

• Much of what we now consider to be problems concerning immigration and assimilation really concern Mexican immigration and assimilation.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Problems
  • Immigration
  • Now

• Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Problems
  • Self

• Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Money
  • Culture
  • Education

• It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Education
  • Community
  • Needs

• I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • America
  • Reality
  • Alone

• What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Important
  • Family
  • Parents

• I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Father
  • Education
  • Say

• I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• One of the problems with the Internet is that a lot of times it is inaccurate.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Problems
  • Internet
  • Times

• Spend hundreds of millions; talk endlessly about issues; present 12-point plans for education, the economy, and the environment. But in the end, the election of our next president can turn on a gaffe.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Education
  • Present
  • Environment

• The problems I have with a flawed script are always revealed in the editing room.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Always
  • Problems
  • Editing

• I love going to other people's weddings, but I have never desired a big white wedding for myself, and it has never been put on me as a pressure, an expectation.

  

  Katherine Kelly
  • People
  • Wedding
  • Expectation

• There are guerrilla armies that make little boys kill their own families. Such acts rip out the soul and make space for beasts to grow inside. Armies need beasts, don’t they? Pet beasts, to do their terrible work!

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Work
  • Soul
  • Space

• Too often we bask in our comfortable complacency and rationalize that the ravages of war, economic disaster, famine, and earth quake cannot happen here. Those who believe this are either not acquainted with the revelations of the Lord, or they do not believe them. Those who smugly think these calamities will not happen, that they will somehow be set aside because of the righteousness of the Saints, are deceived and will rue the day they harbored such a delusion.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Believe
  • War
  • The Lord

• I love the way ravens fly; they are the most acrobatic and daring birds.

  

  Philip Pullman
  • Fly

• Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education.

  

  Nicholas Negroponte
  • Education
  • Problems
  • Solutions