- 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
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in public school until third or fourth grade, and after that, I was homeschooled. I was homeschooled until I was 14, and then when I was 14, I began attending college. Mom was not playing about that education.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We owe a lot when it comes to women in terms of innovation, in terms of education, in terms of progression in life.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Young people don't really study the facts; they watch the skewed MSNBC and get a primarily liberal education.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had an artistic streak and was good at painting and drawing and also very good at English, but I did want to be a scientist. The education system means you have to choose physics or Shakespeare. It can't be both.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very interested in working with nonprofits, people in education, medicine, people who are doing things to improve the world and who don't have the money to come to Siegel+Gale for help.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was placid and easygoing. He owned a small shoe store where I helped out on Saturdays. I think he'd have been pleased if I'd made a career of working in the shoe store. But my mother was ambitious. She encouraged us to read books, and she pushed us toward a musical education.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided to combine my musical background, business education and creative abilities - and go into the record business.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory.
- Economical
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- Nov 07, 2020
The advent of interactive communications has created an inflection point where it's economical to provide education differently than in the past.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020