- Ignorance
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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
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, women are expected to be equal to men in so many capacities - financially, career-wise, in education - yet the one disconnect was, and is, with relationships.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Education must be the only sector that hasn't already been completely revolutionized by technology.
- Education Reform
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.
- Demonstrate
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- Nov 07, 2020
We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Imagine how different those classrooms could be if hundreds of Nigeria's most talented recent graduates and professionals channeled their energy not only into the country's banks, but into making education in the country a force for transformation.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.
- Diversity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The lack of diversity in higher education is a problem we as a country must tackle if we're going to live up to our promise.
- White
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a white woman with a privileged education, I'm keenly aware that I founded an organization that can only realize its goal if it enlists many more leaders who share the backgrounds of the students and families we work with.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in countries around the world, there is a constant search for easier solutions.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
- Nov 07, 2020