Quotes About Education

Kids see cooking as a creative outlet now, like soccer and ballet. It gives me hope that things like fast food, childhood obesity and the horrible state of school lunches can be addressed by kids and their parents.

When I was seven we moved to Orpington, and in my new school, I was kept in for extra lessons to learn 'joined-up' writing instead of playing football. I still think that my poor handwriting and lack of soccer skills date from that period.

We want kids to think that they can think about science. They don't need to just play soccer.

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the affirmation of differences between groups and social classes and in the reproduction of those differences.

Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.

Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise.

The social science on the impact of desegregation is clear. Researchers have consistently found that students in integrated schools - irrespective of ethnicity, race, or social class - are more likely to make academic gains in mathematics, reading, and often science than they are in segregated ones.

Our educational system globally has not been historically great in reskilling for newer job roles. We need a new social contract to do that. For India, lack of an incumbent structure might be an advantage, where it can use digital education to leapfrog.

We already know that kids who get put in front of TVs instead of interacting, this is not good in all kinds of ways. And it's just not good for their cognitive - it's not good for their social development - I mean, that is incredible that kids in kindergarten... We should be moving away from screens at all levels of education, not moving into them.

Getting to know Vixen has been an amazing learning experience, and I am glad that I am close to her so that I am able to be further educated on social issues and see them through her eyes.

It gets to whether we're a teacher-education model or a movement for social justice. I would say we're about the latter.

My kids are really into social justice.

There are always groups on campus that are doing amazing things. I know when I was in college, I was a student at the University of Arizona, working on my bachelor's in history, and I got involved with a number of different groups that were connected to different social justice issues that I cared about.

Going to an interracial high school shaped my understanding of social justice and racial inequality.

Most people, certainly faculty, believe that if they're for social justice, it's automatically integrated into whatever they do.

All I did was go to school and play golf. I didn't have much of a social life.

Regular school is one bajillion times easier than online school. I want friends; I want a social life. I want that experience in my life.

When I talk to CEOs, they're not educated about social media.

My contention is that most students get distracted by music and social media because our current state of education is not sufficiently engaging to command their full attention.

There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.

Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it's morally right.

I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia.

The SSN Institute will be expanded in areas such as liberal arts, social sciences, natural sciences, communications.

My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children's education.