- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Education Quotes
Words on learning, access, and opportunity.
These education quotes focus on the difficulty of building strong leadership within schools and the honest acknowledgment that a privileged background shapes how someone approaches education work. Several point to diversity in higher education as an unresolved national challenge. Related content lives in our Suvichar collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Emphasize
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's very important to emphasize that there are many, many different educational institutions in what we call higher education, and they educate an enormous diversity of students. I think all of those institutions have to define particular roles for themselves; they can't do everything at once.
- College Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.
- Formal Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
The difficulty is, Pell Grants are an attempt to do the right thing, and that is to give the low-income student an opportunity to access higher education, and that's a good thing. And welfare was an attempt to help those most in need. The difficulty is, often times a program is so successful that it grows and grows and grows and grows.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look back and see the kids who made it through school - it made a huge difference in their lives, which made me believe in the power of public education and what it can do for individuals and communities and the state.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
In any community there's a strong pull home. People want to return, see their community get better economically and socially. You can build those community-grown opportunities for the kids who've graduated from college to return home, to provide businesses and support things going on. It'll only happen through education.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our public education system does a great job. I don't think it's broken. We aren't interested in doing reform for reform's sake. I believe in public education; it did a great job for me. It deserves our support and encouragement.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents told me that education was the path to success - and they showed me, taking me to Head Start while they were pursuing their own college degrees.
- Concert Hall
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's clear on the one hand that an education enriches and informs a response to beauty, even makes it possible in esoteric cases. On the other hand, there's no question that someone with no musical education whatsoever might wander into a concert hall and be overwhelmed by the 'Beethoven Pastoral Symphony'.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think every business should build on their strengths, and the strengths of Victoria are our clean, green agriculture; the strengths of Victoria are our strong education system.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women with education, skills, and independent sources of income are more able to withstand the pressures of the patriarchal family and more able to express their opinions and to move freely within their communities.
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020