- 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
- Prison
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in prison, rap was all I had at that point because I was kicked out of school, all that education just gone and I couldn't come out of prison to play football - that was all over with.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Education gives girls the knowledge, experience, and confidence to play their rightful role in society.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we tell girls that we expect them to pursue education and excel in education, we are changing the narrative and are opening the door to the leaders of our future.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Investing in girls and women is the smartest thing we can do, and will help us to improve opportunities for all people. With equal access to education, health care, employment, and representation in political and economic decision-making, girls and women are force to be reckoned with.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
It occurred to me that my family had achieved the American Dream, from being poor to starting a business to giving me and my brother an amazing education. It's one reason I joined the Air Force, because I believed I can never give back to America what America has given to my family and me.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him. The first time I listened to jazz, he gave me a Thelonious Monk record. It was so different from anything I had ever heard. It took me a while to understand it, and I liked that. I liked the fact that it wasn't immediately palatable.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been raised in the mountains of Idaho by a father who distrusted many of the institutions that people take for granted - public education, doctors and hospitals, and the government.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I taught myself algebra and a little grammar, and somehow I scraped a high enough score on the ACT to be admitted to Brigham Young University, even though I had no formal education.
- Different Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
We think about education as a stepping stone into a higher socio-economic class, into a better job. And it does do those things. But I don't think that's what it really is. I experienced it as getting access to different ideas and perspectives and using them to construct my own mind.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020