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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
My kid is seven years old and is learning to read and conjugate, but I don't agree with that kind of education because I feel that the concepts are not contextualized... it's interesting to try to make my kid a reflective boy, rather than just a repetitive boy, even if he doesn't agree with me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
To my mind, the education of children - girl children, specifically - is what really creates an enlightened society. It creates a liberal society.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In India, we are forced to choose our specialisation very early, whereas in some other countries, this can be done much later in life. While the British have abandoned this approach, we in India seem to be struggling with the old British system of education.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Education is like the pooja ghar for us. We are never going to become a for-profit player in education. It will be akin to selling the pooja ghar.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents came from lower-class British backgrounds. But they worked hard and, without formal education, made it where they are today.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, school recess and physical education class were times for kids to run around and play games.
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- Nov 07, 2020
China is doing lots of things right. It's investing in education and R&D, it's opening up, it's more cosmopolitan than it's ever been. I think it's very likely that China will continue to explode economically and certainly become a superpower.
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- Nov 07, 2020
With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.'
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfortable to enumerate the rules of his grandparents' faith, if he knows them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you.
- Nov 07, 2020
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The public school education system has done so much for me that it would be wrong not give anything back.
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- Nov 07, 2020