Quotes About Education

We want kids in communities to know real food, and we want them to have a choice between real food and industrial food.

Every industrial revolution brings along a learning revolution.

Coding is like writing, and we live in a time of the new industrial revolution. What's happened is that maybe everybody knows how to use computers, like they know how to read, but they don't know how to write.

I'm super excited about health care; I'm super excited about education - major industries where AI can play a big role.

I had to work to put myself through school, so I always worked in the heaviest industries I could find because that's who paid the best.

Basically, I think society functions thanks to how certain key industries work - government, finance, healthcare, education, energy. Pretty much all of these have a huge impact on everything else.

I have learnt a lot about the challenges children face - poverty, inequality and their difficulties in accessing basic services.

It's incredibly important to understand history... when it comes to inequality.

By expediting the use of the 1619 Project, our schools are coming perilously close to cementing existing inequality, rather than giving kids the chance to escape it.

There were a couple of months when I was approaching graduation where I started to think of graduating from college as the afterlife. Because it's this kind of crazy thing that you always know you're going to finish school inevitably, but nobody ever really tells you what happens afterwards.

We have to teach goodness to our infants.

My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor, and all her kids got an education. And my mom grew up poor. And they both worked so hard and cultivated so much of their own happiness. I wanted to have that like an amulet. Not like armor, but like a magic feather. Like Dumbo's magic feather.

Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.

Children's ability to learn is infinite when they are engaged.

People feel that decisions about their jobs, the way their children are educated, how their church functions, and products they buy are made by someone and some place so distant that they can't find anybody to talk to that has any influence over them.

There is a latent anger in a lot of people that went to boarding school at an early age. I was eight. And I loved it over the five years, but I think the adjustments for eight-year-olds are a lot. And I think it informs who you are for a long, long time.

I wanted to better inform the world.

To live effectively is to live with adequate information.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.

Floating the idea that every kid in Brixton can become a whizkid at information technology is dishonest.

If we don't have an informed electorate we don't have a democracy. So I don't care how people get the information, as long as they get it. I'm just doing it my particular way and I feel lucky I can do it the way I want to do it.

You can be aware and educated and informed, but you've got to place emphasis on being compassionate, having empathy and understanding.

Democracy requires information. Plato knew that informed decision-making requires knowledge.

We can all make better decisions when we're informed.