- 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
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew I wanted to be a part of NASA in any case, and so I chose my goals in education to be consistent with working at NASA even as, you know, a scientist.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women tend to break the network of friends they make, but it is a habit that men have learned. It is an approach to life that involves planning almost without thinking about it. And men sustain this. I came from a northern grammar school. I had a good education, but I didn't have a good network.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of those who control the power in that society.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information.
- Nov 07, 2020
Education is freedom.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Washington several times at the request of different parties to talk about education reform. I used to always say I felt like I needed to take a shower after I left, because it was so partisan that I just really hated it.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good questions outrank easy answers.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not throw out my education lightly, but what I was being taught was of no use in explaining what I saw around me. It was the Great Depression.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet.
- American Workers
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do not need an immigration policy that displaces American workers or American students and drives up costs in education.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020