Quotes About Education

You educate a boy, and you're educating an individual. You educate a girl, and you're educating a village. -African Proverb

Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms, should both note that the intervention that has tested most cost-effective in Africa is neither... Secular bleeding hearts and religious bleeding hearts will have to forge a common cause.

Women's empowerment helps raise economic productivity and reduce infant mortality. It contributes to improved health and nutrition. It increases the chances of education for the next generation.

The Bauhaus was an attitude, not a style or a time period.

Celts appear to have been literate only where they had neighbours who could teach them.

Learning without thinking is useless. Thinking without learning is dangerous. Confucius, LúnyÅ­ (Analects), ii. 15

Life, I've learned, is never fair. If they teach anything in schools, that should be it.

They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it

Before I started (college), that's the advice my dad gave me. He said to pick classes based on the teacher whenever you can, not the subject...his point was that good teachers are priceless. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it.

What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it.

teaching is impossible unless a student wants to learn.

It's just that every now and then there's a student who comes from a challenging family background, and you know there's nothing you can do for them. It's enough to break your heart sometimes.

I remember, in school during English lessons, I would ask the teacher what were the most difficult books to read, and when she'd say 'Ulysses' or something, I'd run off to the library to check out a copy, eager to attempt the most difficult mountain.

My father was retired military, and my mother was an educator. She was incredibly creative. I used to love going to her school during the summer and helping her decorate her classroom. I would draw Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck. She was a sixth grade teacher. She and my father are the ones that got me into my love of music.

Until I was diagnosed with mouth cancer, I'd never heard of it.

Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.

Yes, I learned history at school; I know everything about apartheid. My dad, he bought the books about it, stuff like that. But I just move on with my life. It's completely different for me.

Anyone can look to someone like Ruby Bridges and be inspired. We wanted to emphasize that this really is all of our history and that Black history shouldn't just be segmented into one month and we just move on. This is a huge part of the fabric of our country.

My parents were both from the East and had moved to San Francisco only so my father could go to law school there.

I grew up in Oldham and moved to Manchester and London. I didn't go to drama school. I just did a B-Tech.

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.

I moved to Chicago in 1980 to go to college.

This crusade is much more important than the anti- lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.

I believe the green movement is gaining momentum because people are becoming more educated about the real importance of living green.