- Politics
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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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- Forward
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
The traditional story of economists has been to say education explains what the returns are to school. I say, 'Okay, that's fine, but what explains the education? How much is just a matter of my giving you a poor kid versus a rich kid?'
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cognitive skills prized by the American educational establishment and measured by achievement tests are only part of what is required for success in life. Character skills are equally important determinants of wages, education, health and many other significant aspects of flourishing lives.
- Live Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The goal, I think, of American education, for decades, and across many, many scholars, was basically to teach people broad lessons in how to live life, how to engage life, how to essentially be effective citizens and effective people.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is imperative to change the way we look at education. We should invest in the foundation of school readiness from birth to age 5.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
In terms of addressing crime issues in the black community, the dominant political class has historically refused to endorse the full slate of reforms along lines of education, economic security, housing, etc, necessary to address the root causes.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student.
- Nov 07, 2020
My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once we can Brexit delivered, we can then start talking about those other issues which are much better at bringing people together. We will talk about local health provision, education, farming policing and the economy.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
Earning high returns isn't just a matter of bragging rights - endowment income supports the missions of nonprofit institutions, whether education, as with college and universities, or broader social programs, as at many private foundations.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
- College Education
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- Nov 07, 2020