Quotes About Education

Membangun perpustakaan adalah mencipta kehidupan.

Bücher verändern das Schicksal der Menschen. So mancher hat "Der Tiger von Malaysia" gelesen und ist an einer fernen Universität Dozent für Literatur geworden. "Siddharta" hat Zehntausende Jugendliche zum Hinduismus geführt, Hemingway hat sie zu Sportlern gemacht, Dumas hat das Leben Tausender Frauen auf den Kopf gestellt und nicht wenige sind durch ein Kochbuch vor dem Selbstmord bewahrt worden.

I had one drama teacher who was amazing, Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me going.

You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.

When I say something like "back when I was in high school," I usually mean: "back when I was supposed to be in high school.

Unfortunately, her degrees in Philosophy, History, Russian, Anthropology, Psychology, and Humanities were useless in the job market

a place where children did not write and read was a woeful place, indeed.

If I were president? First thing I'd do is take care of the schoolteachers. I'm not saying we should start 'em out with six figures, but in some places they've got to be mother, father, brother, sister, and mentor. They're real important people. Let's give 'em a raise -- and attract the best people to the job.

Tardamos bastante más de lo que calculan los maestros en entender la escritura como búsqueda personal de expresión. El primer aliciente para expresarse por escrito de una manera espontánea surge, precisamente, como rebeldía frente a su mandato. La ruptura con los maestros es condición necesaria para que germine la voluntad real de escribir.

Learning is one addiction I don't mind admitting to. In fact, I celebrate it.

I'm a learning machine and this is the place to learn.

Content written at the eighth-grade level can be read and understood by 80 percent of Americans.

The truth is that the hard-fought victories of the Civil Rights Movement caused a reaction that stripped Brown of its power, severed the jugular of the Voting Rights Act, closed off access to higher education, poured crack cocaine into the inner cities, and locked up more black men proportionally than even apartheid-era South Africa.

Imagine if Reconstruction had actually honored the citizenship of four million freedpeople—provided the education, political autonomy, and economic wherewithal warranted by their and their ancestors' hundreds of years of free labor. If, instead of continually re-fighting the Civil War, we had actually moved on to rebuilding a strong, viable South, a South where poor whites, too—for they had been left out as well—could gain access to proper education. Imagine

Since the days of enslavement, African Americans have fought to gain access to quality education. Education can be transformative. It reshapes the health outcomes of a people; it breaks the cycle of poverty; it improves housing conditions; it raises the standard of living. Perhaps, most meaningfully, educational attainment significantly increases voter participation.135 In short, education strengthens a democracy. As

The brutally relentless tactics of stall and defy, then stall and undermine—tactics that went on for at least four decades—left the United States with millions of citizens who lacked the education needed to be competitive in a global, technology-driven economy.

The truth is that when World War I provided the opportunity in the North for blacks to get jobs with unheard-of pay scales and, better yet, the chance for their children to finally have good schools, African Americans fled the oppressive conditions in the South.

That a child could excel even when "forced to attend an underfunded school with poorer physical facilities, less experienced teachers, larger classes," and a number of other deficits compared with "a school with substantially more funds," Marshall barked, "is to the credit of the child not the State.

Now, in the twenty-first century, the sector of the U.S. economy that accounts for more than 50 percent of our sustained economic expansion, science and engineering, is relying on an ever-dwindling skilled and educated workforce. Whereas at one point, "about 40% of the world's scientists and engineers resided in the U.S.," according to Rodney C. Adkins, senior vice president of IBM, "that number [had] shrunk to about 15%" by 2012.133

The states of the Deep South, which fought Brown tooth and nail, today all fall in the bottom quartile of state rankings for educational attainment, per capita income, and quality of health.139

Even when philanthropist Pierre S. Du Pont launched a program to bring these schools up to code, white residents made it clear that they not only opposed public funding for black schools but were equally resistant to private, philanthropic resources intervening as well.

The property value of black schools in Clarendon County, attended by 6,531 students, was "officially listed as $194,575. The value of the white schools, attended by 2,375 youngsters, was put at $673,850." Thus, the county spent nearly ten times more per capita on the white students' facilities.

Indeed, by 1963, not one black child attended a public school with a white child in South Carolina, Alabama, or Mississippi.

Grappling with America's trenchant refusal to open up the doors to quality education, Time announced that the "gap between what the Negro now achieves and what he might achieve indicates that he is the nation's most wasted resource."122