Quotes About Community

If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages.

My goal is more youth oriented. I'm super big on education, I was in school to be an elementary education teacher so I'm starting to build schools, getting supplies in schools in Nicaragua.

Learn how to cook. Read books that will educate you. Get an education. Get a career. And support yourself. And live in a section of town that isn't conducive to violence.

I believe in local control of education.

You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger.

I like the concept of local education.

I'd like to do something for inner-city schools and education for young people because it's constantly being cut.

We have to make these young people (of the Depression) feel that they are necessary. (They should be given) "certain things for which youth craves – the chance for self-sacrifice for an ideal.

Internal democracy in schools is as important in order to ensure the true democratization of education.

No matter where I travel in the state, people want to talk about education.

If you are always persuasive, you would be able to make new friends in society.

My grandma, Mrs Grace Ayorkor Acquah said 'Educating the child is everybody's business.

I was determined to get them away from the idea that their education is a private experience.

I love social media. I love the connectivity it provides, the creativity it allows, and the breathtaking wealth of information we all have at our fingertips because of it.

It is a shame that the very people who used education to clamber out of the disadvantages they had grown up in, have drawn up the ladder after them.

Only dead mathematics can be taught where competition prevails: living mathematics must always be a communal possession.

If you educate a man you educate a person but if you educate a woman you educate a family.

The Jews have always been students and their greatest study is themselves.

Letter home from college boy: "There are 370 boys here - I wish there were 369."

That's the beauty of education, kids taking lessons out of the classroom and back into their own world where they can positively affect their family, their friends, and their greater community.

If I stayed angry at other people, I would miss finding friends among those I was angry with.

There's nothing more emotional than looking out at an audience and knowing they're there because they understand.

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.

Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part...and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.