Quotes About Education

I had, before I went to college, I had taken a few years off after high school and really had, I guess in those days, I had no intentions of going to college.

Every day is a learning experience for city kids, and they are really sort of forced to interact with everyone around them and develop into social beings.

Kids that I went to school with didn't know how to interact with black people like that. There were only, like, three or four black kids in the class.

School is more than ABCs and 123s. It's the beginning of developing how to interact in a social setting.

In just my interaction, I go to factories, and I talk to our employees. And in Canada, they have had a least a year or two more education. It's like, almost, I never run into anybody who hasn't finished high school. And in the United States, you have a lot who dropped out of 11th grade or whatever.

I think it's important to educate kids about food and let them help a little with the cooking and cleaning. That interaction is really important.

Education is, in the end, about individual interactions and about learning.

Kids today are so intelligent and computer savvy, so pairing an interactive computer world with something cuddly seems like a natural fit.

I have a long-term interest in the humanities.

In my constituency I've got local authority schools, free schools, academies, I've got a grammar school, I've got independent schools that aren't far away - and the interesting thing is, whether I am walking into a local authority school or a free school or an academy, the name above the door matters less than what goes on inside the building.

To break boundaries interests me. With all the knowledge that is available now in the world, it should be accessible to everyone. You can get so much information on the Internet now, and yet there are so many places in the world where people just don't have the education.

What I find is really interesting is the Ear-Nose-Throat doctor thing, which I know would take a lot of work and education, but it's something that really interests me, because it's something that helps people who've had the same problems as me, with the whole hearing and nose congestion and problems with your voice.

I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating.

I've never been much of a craftsman, in an educated way. But I think just the experience of writing makes the avenues I follow a little more efficient in some ways. At the same time, when you're young, you're a little more fearless, and there's less of an internal critic.

The impact of giving someone a connected smartphone is no different from giving them a real computer. I look at how my kids learn and how different it is from how I learned because the impact of these things is just so huge. Sometimes I think we don't fully internalize what it is to get the power of knowledge in everyone's hand.

I think people have to read more and learn more about what's going on internationally.

I am learning English and even try to talk in English with people. I don't care if people are laughing at me. I always look at the Internet for the correct pronunciation and play word games.

The majority of people who don't have Internet, don't have the Internet because they don't know why they want to use the Internet.

What's got me excited about the education space is the growth of the Internet over the next 10, 20, 30 years.

Kids listen to everything on the Internet.

Most people are visually illiterate. Most people don't understand images: they don't understand how to interpret them or how to manufacture them.

We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothing may lack to the groping soul, and then we watch for the perfect faculty to come, safeguarding the child from interruption so that it may carry its efforts through.

Name any issue in the world, I can tell you how technology is intertwined with it. I can tell you how technology will make it better. How it can make it worse. It needs to be part of everything that we do, whether you are a government or a company or a citizen.

I am a big believer in early intervention.