Education Quotes
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I feel there is so much more we can do in improving education, making it accessible and understanding how technology can be a part of the solution.
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We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FEPC and the right to vote.
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Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
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Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers in your family do not know about in detail.
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Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.
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True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
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Legislatures not driven to desperation by the problems of public education may be able to see the threat in vouchers negotiable in sectarian schools.
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There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.
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Like health care, education is something worth spending on and worth investing in, but we're spending more and getting less.
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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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There is definitely a need for increasing capacity in higher education; a large part of this is being met in the technical education segment by the private sector and in the non-technical by the state sector. In the public sector, we will do whatever we can afford.
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In America we believe that every child, no matter where they live, who their family is, or what the color of their skin, is entitled to as good an education as the richest parent in America can give to their children.
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The sense of justice and injustice is not deriv'd from nature, but arises artificially… from education, and human conventions.
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Right-wingers don't want public education to succeed.
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I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.
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Why are numbers beautiful? It’s like asking why is Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don’t see why, someone can’t tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren’t beautiful, nothing is.
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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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My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
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If learning to read was as easy as learning to talk, as some writers claim, many more children would learn to read on their own. The fact that they do not, despite their being surrounded by print, suggests that learning to read is not a spontaneous or simple skill.
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I worked my way through the education system and was treated as though I had value.
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The Partnership for Higher Education in Africa represents our commitment to Africa's next generation of leaders, who deserve an exemplary education to prepare them to help set the course for their nations' futures. We expect the universities in which we invest to become the foundation of a higher education network that will serve all of Africa for decades to come.
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Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.
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We know that a smarter Australia means a stronger Australia. An Australia able to grasp the opportunities of the Asian Century. A skilled workforce and a strong, productive and resilient economy. We know we'll only win the economic race in the Asian Century if we win the education race.
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Improving our nation's education system has long been the cornerstone of my policy agenda.
