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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
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Camfed has worked for more than two decades in partnership with poor families, transforming this desire for girls' education into reality, and showing the measurable benefits of girls' education for all of us.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Girls' education is a human right. And along with its fundamental justice, it promises so much for the individual, for her family, for society, for all of us.
- Nov 07, 2020
The first 10 years of my education were spent at a Catholic school in Springfield, Mass.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to L.A. to become an actress, and I started from the ground up. I worked as an extra, and then I started taking this joke-writing class because it was free. I didn't want to be a comedian, but I was like, 'Free education? Yeah, I'll take a class.'
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
This journey is not over. Our education initiatives have so much momentum, and we're committed to sharing even more stories from the Arctic when we return.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have an opportunity now with some of the projects I've done, i.e. the North Pole and the South Pole, to speak to a larger audience and talk about things that have nothing to do with physical education or special ed.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Edinburgh, in Scotland, a few days after the end of the Second World War. Both my parents had left school at a very young age, unwillingly in my father's case. Yet both had deep effects on my education, my father influencing me toward measurement and mathematics, and my mother toward writing and history.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
The very wealthy have little need for state-provided education or health care... They have even less reason to support health insurance for everyone or to worry about the low quality of public schools that plagues much of the country.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Surely in a country that works for everyone ensuring that everyone has access to an excellent education should be the first priority of any government?
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020