Quotes About Education

Dr. Henry Givens, Jr. led Harris-Stowe State University for 32 years. His leadership transformed Harris-Stowe, the university I attended, from a small college with just one building into the nationally acclaimed HBCU that it is today.

Camfed has worked for more than two decades in partnership with poor families, transforming this desire for girls' education into reality, and showing the measurable benefits of girls' education for all of us.

It's clear that many migrant families really support their children and appreciate the transforming power of education.

Appreciating teachers means transforming the way we think about education and the way we design curriculums. It means protecting the rights of teachers to unionize and collectively bargain.

I hope I can help convince people there that being transgender is not a big deal and that we are just average people trying to go to school, work, and live good lives.

There are so few books for little kids that actually mention the word transgender and explain what it is in simple terms.

I want to be able to supply the knowledge that transgender women need in order to live peacefully and become accepted among all men and women.

It's a staggering transition for high school students that found they could study five hours a week and make As and Bs.

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

College and the responsibilities that came with it helped me transition from teenager to adulthood.

Taking full advantage of all that college offers can be tough for teens facing a major life transition under pressure to perform. Perhaps we should all lower our expectations and let kids find their way.

I wish football, as a culture, bred more than just a football player. It has the ability to be an incubator and transition players properly.

We gotta educate the kids. You've got to do your job as a citizen, but the same time, you have to also give the tools to the society to learn and create their habits so it's a seamless transition to become a better society.

I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.

Better degrees don't automatically translate into better skills and better jobs and better lives.

My time at Barnard was fun but stressful. I transferred there from the acting conservatory at NYU, and my Rolling Around On the Floor Pretending to Be a Lion classes didn't translate into many academic credits.

I had this one teacher, and as I got older and translated things he used to say, it was racist and hatred stuff he was saying toward me and my brother.

How does a poet teach himself or herself? I think chiefly by imitation, chiefly by practising it as a deliberate technical exercise often. Translation, imitation, those were my methods anyway.

My mom is a translator for the school district in Delaware. She'd hear these different stories from working with families there. Those stories stuck with me.

I remember what it was like when my parents couldn't help me with my homework because they couldn't speak the language, or being a translator for my parents. I did that a lot.

It is not just family that must transmit values, but school also.

Inclusion and transparency have been mainstays of my leadership. It's about education and reaching out.

While NCLB drove important progress on transparency and data disaggregation, I think it's clear that the status quo in public education is not working for our kids or our country.

On housing, education and skills, health and social care, transport and economic development, local government is better placed to make decisions in the interests of local communities.