Quotes About Education

I think 2tor has a chance of remaking higher ed in a really great way. If we do that, those investors will do well.

Lists, and lists of lists, invite many questions and one that crops up here is: what makes a children's book last? When it's books for very young children, this is a matter that is almost entirely at the behest of adults - parents, teachers, critics, librarians.

The science doesn't prove Common Core's effective. So I guess what I mean is science is an essential part of any decision-making process, and so is public involvement. And in the long-term, you lose legitimacy and power if you don't directly engage with the public.

Parents who've not had an education themselves find it hard to explain to their children what a decent education involves, and I completely understand that. Parents themselves need to be educated by schools about what sort of education they should expect for their children. I do think there's a heavy responsibility of the school.

There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.

The iPad is the greatest thing as far as kids.

If I had had a thing like an iPad when I was a kid, then I never would have gotten into the habit of writing things down by hand.

I'm not Chinese, but both of my parents were born in Iran; my brother and I were the first ones born here. First in our family to go to college, that whole thing.

I began college during the Iraq War and initially wanted to be a foreign correspondent.

At the time when I was going to school in Ireland people didn't really have a clue about what it was, so I had to spend a lot of my time trying to explain to teachers what dyslexia meant.

For me, people in Ireland who became actors would have to go through the Billy Barry's in Dublin.

I hated school in Ireland.

I was an avid reader as a child because we didn't have television in Ireland until the mid-'60s.

I do hope in Ireland children in schools can experience the richness of chess and it's positive effects.

Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.

I had quite a scattered childhood. I was Irish in London, because I had my secondary school education there. I never really fitted anywhere. I didn't feel it was a negative thing, and I was never made to feel different - I just knew I was.

It's kind of ironic that if I get my Ph.D., I'll be a real doctor.

History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.

The problem in a lot of low-income countries is that people take out loans to go and get degrees, which are then irrelevant in the job market.

Don't make generalisations about any group of children. For years I have felt angry with those who argue that Shakespeare and the rest of the classic canon are irrelevant to inner-city kids.

I did GCSE's and A-levels. I did my finals after the Lions tour in 2009 to get my law degree. So I've always had an eye on life beyond playing, irrelevant of the period in my career.

A self-defined challenge is an irresistible teacher.

As students, it's important that irrespective of whatever you are doing, you educate yourself, as that gives you certain standing in public.

The more I'm educated on things like the Black Lives Matter movement, police brutality, and things that I feel passionate about, I never want to come off irresponsible for choosing a name that is disrespectful.