Quotes About Education

We need to align the incentives so that colleges have an incentive to keep down their costs... to graduate students on time with degrees in areas where they're going to be able to get jobs and going to be able to pay back those loans.

I wasn't very academically inclined, growing up as a child, and the only subject I was good at was English. I had a flair for it, since I came from a literary background.

I didn't grow up watching films, as I was more academically inclined.

I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning.

The government should include menstrual hygiene in the curriculum.

Teaching young people about healthy lifestyles should include a conversation about cancer risk factors.

I want my children to attend inclusive schools where diversity is respected and acknowledged as a sign of strength.

I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.

Children who have an education grow up to lead healthier lives - earn higher income, take better care of their families, contribute to their economies.

The government should not do everything for everybody all the time, but it should provide basic services to everyone who needs them. Education ought not be contingent on income or where you live. Neither should health.

A cultural shift is needed to incorporate exercise into our children's daily lives.

A lot of the design courses in schools and colleges don't incorporate very much making, and a lot of the making courses incorporate too much technology and computers.

The idea that education will lead to a lessening of bigotry is just factually incorrect.

We need to increase education budgets.

The dictionary is like a time capsule of all of human thinking ever since words began to be written down. And exploring where words have come from can increase your understanding of the words themselves and expand your understanding of how to use the words, and all of this change happens in your thinking when you read the words.

The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards education, and anything else is abusive.

We have a locale-based education system; we have increasing economic segregation. We clearly need a larger federal program to try to help disadvantaged districts.

We lack an educated, resilient citizenry capable of navigating the increasing complexities of daily life.

Absolutely no one should be arguing for a system aimed at increasing ignorance.

Dick and I became increasingly committed to helping other parents - parents from low-income families in particular.

And the danger is - and it's happening - is we're seeing an incredibly big rise amongst young gay people, young heterosexual people as far as catching HIV, which is, you know, in an educated country like this or in Britain, it's frightening.

I am deeply indebted to Georgetown University and the basketball program for all they have done for me.

I think boarding school does give you an independence.

I think that literature has the important effect of creating free, independent, critical citizens who cannot be manipulated.