Quotes About Education

What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.

When I started Teach For America, I wasn't trying to come up with an idea that would change the world. I was trying to solve a problem much closer to home: I was a senior in college, and I had no idea what I was going to do with my life!

It's time to declare a cease-fire in the education arms race. We have far more to gain from collaborating to solve our common problems than competing for higher rankings.

Enhancing revenues will help us improve education and solve our infrastructure problems.

I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.

Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.

I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy.

We have to educate our communities about the immigration system and dispel the myths that have been fed to us. Immigration isn't going to go away. A wall isn't going to 'solve' the issue.

When we see something as a problem, we have to try and solve it and the best way is generally through education.

Working families are worried about affordable health care, public education, and earning enough to get ahead. Our people should know that Frankfort is working to solve the challenges they're facing - not furthering the self-interests of lobbyists and insiders.

Politicians of all kinds think there's some running in talking tough about children's reading. They think that if they announce to the public that some kind of daily drilling on sounds and letters is to be brought in, the problem of children's reading will be solved.

We need to educate our young people about the dangers of gun violence and that there are real consequences for solving disputes with guns.

Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.

All children know when something is wrong and they can't understand something - they never need someone to tell them they're stupid. They need help in solving the problem.

I liked learning things. I liked solving problems and doing my homework. I realize a lot of kids don't like that, but I always enjoyed going to school.

I've dedicated my entire career as an educator, principal, administrator and now as state superintendent toward solving problems, not picking fights.

I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English.

It was a slow understanding that the lack of education in a country like Somalia creates these huge social problems.

Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.

College is right for some people, and it's not for others. I shouldn't rush into it just because that's what everyone does after high school is you go to college.

Some people are academically inclined, some vocationally and we shouldn't penalise the latter.

Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent.

I was a history undergrad, and there's some things I could do in academics or business.

There are some things you only learn through experience.