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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
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to write, ever since I was a kid. I started writing at the age of 11. All I wanted to do was finish my education and have my nights free for writing.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ultimately, you've got to have something to say, so a writer should continue learning things throughout life. But I don't think education makes one a writer.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own introduction to music came quite early. My father didn't have much of an education, but he was keen for me to get some qualifications, and I ended up winning a choral scholarship to a cathedral school.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.
- Tough Times
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know each fund has its supporters, and that some will not want to see the surplus go to schools. But, in tough times, you have to set priorities. And our priority is education.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need sex education in schools, but we need it at home first. We need parents to learn the names of the teachers who are teaching their children. We need families to question day-care centers, to question other children and their own as to what goes on.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd done all the things I thought a person had to do in order to be successful and fulfilled, like getting a great education and becoming a lawyer, and yet there was zero spark in my life. But there was no light-bulb moment. It was gradual. In the early 1990s, I decided to experiment and try some new ways of living.
- Fragility
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- Nov 07, 2020
The antidote to white fragility is ongoing and lifelong and includes sustained engagement, humility, and education.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In any economy, the entire population is supported by the part of it that is working. All other things being equal, it thus follows that the most attractive acquisition a society can have is a young adult, whose childhood and education has already been paid for, but whose entire working life still lies ahead.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020