Nina Bawden Quotes
People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.
Quotes to Explore
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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
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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.
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Education is a way of empowering people; it opens up so many doors and is fundamental to everybody. And teachers are not often appreciated in the way that they should be.
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We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.
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Bringing GIS into schools gets the kids very excited and indirectly teaches them different components of STEM education. That's been illustrated at school after school.
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.
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I'm a part of your life. You might not know it, but I am.
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Education, doing homework, is the way to lift up girls. Around the world, where girls are educated, the economy and the standard of living rise.
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Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It's oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys.
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Women need to be empowered through the strongest tool - education. They don't need to be subservient to anyone, but at the same time, men must change their mindset towards women. If they are more respectful towards them, then things will change at the grassroots level. It will happen slowly, but everyone has to move together.
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Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.
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Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
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You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances.
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Our education system is not preparing young people for the world they will face.
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My priority will continue to be that we maintain the optimal balance to be able to invest in education and infrastructure while encouraging business growth.
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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
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Our education system was developed for an industrial era where we could teach certain skills to our children and they were able to use these skills for the rest of their lives working productively in an industry.
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It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.
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People see poverty all around them in India, but they are desensitized or immune to it. I came to the conclusion that poverty is driven by lack of education.
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From a gabled roof the rolling melon has two choices of descent, though both lead to disaster.
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In health care today, we spend most of the dollars - in terms of treating disease - in the last two years of a person's life.
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People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.
