- 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
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
As a parent, a scientist, and educator, what I know is that it's always better to provide the education that will help keep my children - all people - safe, even if I don't want them to engage in the behavior.
- Foundation
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the stuff that parades as drug education in this country is just rubbish with no foundation in evidence.
- Important
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Skills that are employable or marketable, education, having a stake or meaningful role in society, not being marginalized - all of those things are very important.
- More
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I've teamed up with one of the headmasters at Eton College, and we're spearheading a kind of 'slow education movement in Britain'. It's based on this idea of moving away from the fast-food approach to learning and going to something deeper, more woolly, harder to measure.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
- Marriage
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
- Materialism
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
- Money
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
- Energy
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It's oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys.
- College Education
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I think the skyrocketing cost of a college education has placed it in the sphere of being a luxury-priced necessity.
- Failure
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Parents
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'
- Distinguished
- |
- Nov 07, 2020