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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unfortunately, I have been a little disappointed that we have issues out there like traditional marriage, abortion, school education, and we have so much silence from the black community, from black preachers, because they understand first hand the impact of all that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got this diverse education, growing up in classical music and existing between that and music that is more visceral, so for sure, I've always been interested in music from other cultures.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went to Harvard Law School, my first year, I didn't want people to know I started my education in a colored school. I didn't want them to know I was the great-grandson of enslaved people. I thought it might diminish me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.
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- Nov 07, 2020
True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.
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I've been very engaged in Illinois and Chicago civic activities for a long time; mostly around building businesses and helping entrepreneurs grow companies, but also around education and education reform.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For every challenge we face - unemployment, poverty, crime, income growth, income inequality, productivity, competitiveness - a great education is a major component of the solution.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to focus on reducing property taxes. We need to focus on education funding. We need to focus on getting term limits on elected officials.
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My wife and I believe that there's nothing we do together as a community that's more important than education.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
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- Nov 07, 2020