Quotes About Education

This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the arts are - not just to those of us who work at it, but to the nation as a whole.

Countries have largely been left alone to handle or ignore their educational problems as they see fit. In part, this was because we assumed that the contexts and challenges were so different from nation to nation that education could not be tackled at the international level.

When I was 16, I was taught by a wonderful teacher who let me ignore the Greek syllabus and just read Homer.

Carbondale, Ill. is where I went to college, and it's where I first started putting on shows.

In every single place I have campaigned in and every single place I have lived, people want some fairly basic things. They want to believe that they are safe, they want to know that their children will be educated and that if they are ill, they will be made better.

Well, you can't say you are lucky to live in Champaign, but I was lucky to be at the University of Illinois. It's a very international cosmopolitan community. That's very helpful.

I grew up in Illinois, went out east to school, and went back to Illinois to teach... Illinois is a great state for ethics.

I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy.

'Death at an Early Age' was about racial segregation in Boston. 'Illiterate America' was about grownups who can't read. 'Rachel and Her Children' was about people who were homeless in the middle of Manhattan.

No, I consider myself computer illiterate.

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.

Having a financially illiterate society is dangerous, and we have to do something about that.

Autism and seizures are the least known areas of illnesses.

My job is not to get an award. My job is to illuminate people about something that they should know.

I think people learn best and are more engaged when it's just normal relatable situations that illustrate the principles they're discussing.

I have a BFA in illustration.

When you speak to a lot of kids, as I've done over the years, you know what to say, keep them laughing, good illustrations and learn to read.

After we become literate, we literally 'think differently' about language: images of brain activation between literate and nonliterate humans bear this out.

In healthcare, we are beginning to see that AI can read the radiology images better than most radiologists. In education, we have a lot of data, and companies like Coursera are putting up a lot of content online.

MTV and others need to think about putting positive images In kids' minds.

Most farmers know that their children's future will probably not be in agriculture, but they have a hard time imagining a different life.

I designed a theater magazine that was full of plays and essays about the theater, and then I worked at a theater school. By osmosis or something, I was learning from reading plays and not being analytical about them, but when I would read them, the joy in me was mostly from imagining them in my head and visualizing them.

Art imitates life. Life imitates high school.