Quotes About Education

Children who use the Internet are much better informed than when I was young. Use this to your advantage.

The more we educate folks, the more it will help them make informed policy decisions.

I want to encourage all parents to read to their children because it helps them to become better educated, better informed.

American democracy depends on the public's ability to remain accurately informed on our state of affairs.

It's one thing to tell people to make informed decisions, but that's difficult when there is no information.

As a former school teacher, I know the importance of keeping everyone informed of what is going on in our schools.

We've made great progress in educating and informing the public on the importance of getting more rigorous computer science education in all of our schools so that students have the knowledge, skills and abilities to compete for the best jobs in the new 21st century digital economy.

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.

Got to build that business base and then you can fund all the things people want: education, health care, strong law enforcement, roads, bridges, infrastructure - all those things flow from that economic base.

We'll look after our hospitals. We'll look after our schools. We'll look after our infrastructure.

One of the most frustrating things is to see a country in which you had elections, the elections were a success, but then you have to say to people nothing can be improved in the next few months, even in the next few years, in infrastructure, in water, in sanitation, in health, in education, in jobs.

I think it's really important to talk education, to talk infrastructure, to talk good jobs and the future of work.

Our schools, like so many parts of our infrastructure, are crumbling across the country. Healing our schools can and should be central to our fight to achieve environmental, racial and economic justice.

Understanding the true causes of the Depression, as well as the real economic record of the United States in the 1930s, is an essential ingredient in anyone's economic and historical education.

Los Angeles has all the ingredients of success... but we need to start with our education system.

This is the big question that we all have about our children: How much, how soon, do we tell our children the less comfortable facts about the world they're going to inherit?

As a child, my mother would read to me late into the night. I didn't enjoy it at the time but she always used to say that the inheritance she was going to leave us was a good education.

I'd set up the Khan Academy as a not-for-profit in 2008, but I was doing well in my job and initially thought I could fund the Academy myself. But by 2009, I was getting so much good feedback that I told my wife that I wanted to do this full time. We had some funds to fall back on, and I knew doing this made me happy.

Even while in school - initially, Vineberg Allen in Mussourie, and later, a number of schools in Ludhiana - I aspired to achieve great things in life. Admittedly, I wasn't quite sure about what these great things would be.

Gandhi, brought out of his semirural setting and given a Western-style education, initially attempted to become more English than the English.

When I initially told a friend that I was going to donate part of my liver to my sister, he exploded and said, 'What? You can't do that! You can't live without your liver!' He had no idea, and to be honest, early on, neither did I. Most people don't know that this is possible, so it's been a fantastic thing to help raise public awareness.

When I got a call to be a part of the Save Governments School initiative as an ambassador, I happily accepted. I even adopted a government school for a small amount of Rs 5 lakh.

In football, anything can happen. You can have an injury, and then you won't play at the highest level anymore. If you don't have a diploma, what then?

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.