- 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
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Training and education is one and the same: that is, to train the mind through a discipline in order to awake the inner intelligence of the individuals.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 17 and living on the streets. I had the education of technically an eighth-grader, but in reality, I had never had a formal education.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought, 'Let's make it a check list. What if I got my education even though I lost my mother, even though my dad is in a shelter?' and looking at these things as hurdles to go over. I could inspire myself.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you think about the children, one of the things that I'm quite concerned about - and I've heard it expressed by others - is trying to find how we can build better accountability, work to provide a level of education that prepares our children for the future.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like many Asian parents, mine were very focused on education. My dad would quiz me with multiplication tables when I was about 5.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd gone to Wellesley College, an amazing women's college where the students were encouraged to follow our dreams. However, after I graduated and had a historical romance published, more than a few people indicated that, in some way, my career choice was a 'waste' of so much education.
- Good Jobs
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- Nov 07, 2020
Around the world, human traffickers trick many people into slavery by false promises of good jobs or good education, only to find themselves forced to work without pay, under the threat of violence.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we were raised in a nice Texas Jewish family where education was the most important thing, and close behind that was the arts. It was emphasized and expected that we'd play piano.
- Economic Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Higher education is meant to provide economic opportunity to Americans - not provide unscrupulous companies the opportunity to syphon off billions in federal taxpayer dollars unfairly.
- Disaster
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Department of Education's refusal to oversee and hold for-profit schools accountable is a government-made disaster, and American students and taxpayers should not have to pay for it.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Immigrants have always come into the country with low levels of education. Whether it's the Irish or Italian or Polish, here is the land of opportunity. It's where people come in at the bottom and build themselves up. To try to bring in people who have already made it is un-American.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gaining my education from practical experience certainly benefited me. If I had gone on to be a lawyer, my life wouldn't have been anywhere near as interesting.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not an education expert, and frankly I don't want to make education decisions for our state. But I am experienced at successfully managing organizations, and putting people on a path where they can succeed.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents' greatest wish was that I graduated from college. Neither of my parents had a college education, and they really wanted me to have one.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020