Quotes About Education

For 13 years, I struggled with education and have only just realised that I was actually struggling to protect myself from it. I was trying to protect my soul.

When you home study, you get a better education. I basically got to teach myself. Being naturally able to make my own opinions about the schoolwork I had to deal with, instead of being instructed under the tutelage of the teacher, was really nice academically.

There are no failures in life: only learning opportunities.

Earning a certificate or degree, or both, after high school opens the door to countless economic opportunities.

I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don't know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.

As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.

College gives people learning and also takes away future opportunities by loading the next generation down with debt.

The Internet serves as a channel of endless information through which individuals now access the news, employment opportunities, education, entertainment, etc.

I think all children love art, but not all get the opportunity to do it.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

Every day, broadband is connecting the unconnected. From education to health care to economic opportunity, more people around the world continue to benefit from living in a fully digitized world.

Access to equal opportunity should not be constrained by zip-code.

You can't have a competitive, egalitarian meritocracy if only some of your citizens have the opportunity for a good education.

Not only do the Amy Schumers of the world and the gun control groups who support her fail to provide real gun safety lessons, they oppose them.

Indeed the Obamas, the Clintons, and many other elites who oppose school choice and make it harder for charter schools to operate, send their own children to private institutions that cost more than many Hispanic families make in a year.

At Swarthmore, the Dean of Women was very opposed to women going into science or engineering - so opposed that if she couldn't talk a girl out of it, she just never had anything more to do with her for the four years she was there.

There's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children.

I learned English at school, or at least that's how it started. Also, in Holland - as opposed to some other European countries - we don't dub anything, so as a kid growing up, always watching English and American movies in their original language really helped.

We should not be a party that is opposed to science.

In metros, girls are very independent, conscious and aware. But in the interiors of our country, where education is not given importance, they continue to be oppressed. But it is important for every woman to acknowledge what she wants from herself rather than going for what people expect from her.

Through my school years, I learned more about slavery, anti-black racism, and oppression in the U.S., and my blackness could no longer be an afterthought. I started wearing it proudly, and as my consciousness deepened, so did my love for black folks.

Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It's oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys.

I think a lot of people will be liberated from a lot of oppressive manufacturing jobs, or a lot of service jobs, because they'll be done by computers. There'll be the world's best education available online and free.

I grew up watching Oprah on television. So, to say I didn't learn a lot from her just wouldn't be true.