Quotes About Community

Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.

I started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then I have been very involved in the crusade for education.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it

Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

My Alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.

The connectedness of things is what the great university is all about, and I believe the great university in the coming century will be described as a community of scholars.

Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration

Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their children's education.

Schools are no longer legally segregated, but because of residential patterns, housing discrimination, economic disparities and long-held custom, they most emphatically are in reality.

Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.

Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.

Education forms the common mind.

I think one of the unique aspects of Catholic school education is the opportunity to care for the material and intellectual needs of the child in a community atmosphere.

We get schooled by the people around us, and it stays inside us deep.

If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.

I'm not just writing songs that are narrating my life, but everyone else around my age because they're super-relatable.

I do speak my mind a lot more than when I was younger. I guess that's just my Polynesian background. That's how we are: just sit back and try and fit in, try and make everyone else happy.

Everyone works hard for each other, and if we're having an off day, everyone else is there to pick things up.

I need everyone else around me to be impactful in my life in some way, and I think my fans need that, too. And I choose to accept that role.

I am just a player like everyone else.

For me, I always considered that a group is above everything else.