- Problems
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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
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day. I just dragged myself through GCSE and A Levels, so it suited me very much to go on to drama school, which was very active.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was taught by my father. He was head of the primary school so I went to his school until I was 11 - I was the youngest of four daughters and we had all been taught by him. But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
My opportunity to design school choice systems began in 2003 with a phone call from Jeremy Lack at the New York City Department of Education. He knew of my work on the medical match and wondered if similar efforts might help reorganize the dysfunctional, congested system then used to match students to high schools.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
- Nov 07, 2020
Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.
- Black Americans
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- Nov 07, 2020
Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the critical issues that we have to confront is illegal immigration, because this is a multi-headed Hydra that affects our economy, our health care, our health care, our education systems, our national security, and also our local criminality.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shakespeare is practically our only link with the classic and the past. The future of education has much to do with whether we will be able to cling to him or not.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
After a sound public education, I attended Penn and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. After being drafted into the military and studying Indonesian, I emerged as a writer, not a painter.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020