Quotes About Education

If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.

Midwives and doctors play a crucial role preventing unnecessary maternal deaths. They educate women about nutrition, health and family planning. And they step in when complications arise.

The social repression and ideological repression of women began with depriving them of education, political decisiveness, mobility and essentially creating sexual slavery.

We cannot train women and forget about the men. We should train men to know the potential of women.

There are few subjects that match the social significance of women's education in the contemporary world.

I believe in women. I desire . . . to do those things that would advance women in moral and spiritual, as well as educational work.

Problem-posing education affirms men and women as beings in the process of becoming.

I am very open to learning. I am like a sponge: I'd like to soak up in new things, new skills.

I'm a sponge for information.

I've always been kind of an information sponge.

Well, getting behind the camera is something I've always wanted to get involved with. Ever since I was doing movies like 'Zathura' I was very interested in all the different jobs on set and kind of soaking all the information up like a sponge.

I'm trying to be a sponge. People say, 'Well, that's what your rookie year is.' I still feel that way in my second year.

I'm a sponge, man. I'm a learner.

I'd rather see us sponsor culture by pushing more money to music education, and facilities for your people to create music. It would be much more sane for cultural advancement then extending copyrights.

The founder of the Mona Foundation actually knew my dad for years, and the more I learned about it, the more I realized I really found the perfect charity. It sponsors schools and educational initiatives all over the planet.

I come from a very affluent family. I have been educated in one of the finest institutions of the world. Money was never a factor in my life: by the grace of God, I was blessed with a golden spoon.

Just do your schoolwork, focus on a sport if you're good at it, do what I did.

I'm convinced that promoting sport is an intelligent way of educating our children.

I want my kids to be able to live comfortable and go to school and to be into sports.

Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.

I got good grades. I played sports.

I think every school in the world should have a sports program.

I've given many lessons in many sports over the years to many different people.

With 'Dear Black Boy,' I wanted to encourage BIack boys to dream outside of sports and think differently.