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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a rule, back when I was an education lawyer in Alabama, about visiting public schools: always go on a rainy day so you can see how badly the roofs leak.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Global poverty is a complex web of interlinked problems. There is no one 'silver bullet' that will solve global inequality. Multiple contributing factors must be tackled in parallel. Yes, education alone is unlikely to lead to employment without economic reform to address the demand side in much of the developing world.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
- Nov 07, 2020
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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- Nov 07, 2020