Quotes About Education

It's a totally different spiel when I talk at Morehouse. But when I'm talking at MIT? At the University of Cincinnati? I'm telling white people, in order to stop systemic racism, you must first befriend, become a colleague of, get to know intimately, put yourself culturally in the framework of someone who doesn't look like you.

There is a systemic problem in this country, where schools are often forcing parents to turn to Ritalin.

Racism is systemic: It's oppression that's built into the laws, legislation, into the way neighborhoods are policed, and into job opportunities and health care and education.

Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.

School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects, but on the much more fertile idea of disciplines... which makes possible a fluid and dynamic curriculum that is interdisciplinary.

India, with one of the largest education systems in the world, has always been a priority for Khan Academy.

In a world that places a growing premium on social skills, education systems need to do much better at fostering those skills systematically across the school curriculum.

Educating the world's poorest girls can only be done with the firm commitment of many stakeholders - both domestic and international - to plan, fund, and build strong, sustainable, and equitable education systems.

Reading, writing, math… Things such as that were a lot easier to teach. It was my hope that if enough people were taught some of the old ways, that people would not have such a hard time progressing. The most important lesson of all though, was to care. Teach people to care about the land around them, and that they could really make a difference. Bright

She was a lovely woman, fitted both by nature and education to be an ornament to society and her family.

We have lunch at ten-forty-five," Colin said. A stupidly early lunch. At our school, the older you get, the stupider your lunch period.

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.

I have two college degrees, but the only way I could make a living was by showing kids how to put a ball in a hole.

School districts in the US don't adopt technology very quickly.

About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools, and creating more room for entrepreneurial organizations to develop. And about half on technology, which I look at as a global platform.

What's got me excited about the education space is the growth of the Internet over the next 10 20, 30 years.

The boys at school are so degenerate that it makes one feel pessimistic about the future of the male gender in general.

His eyes gravitated towards the wall-to-wall bookshelf at one end of the room. 'You folks like books, I see.

I never really loved school through junior high, but then I started running track my freshman year, and I was just like, 'Wow, this is cool!'

You know a lot of things, Uncle,' Gillian said, patting him on the shoulder as if he were a noble steed. 'Learned form books,' Clay promised her. 'You'll know as much once you read more of them. In fact, you'll know more than I do, because new books are always being written.

It has been said that if a little learning withdraws a person from religion, great learning brings him back to it.956

The era of true peace on earth will not come as long as a tremendous percentage of your taxes goes to educate men in the trades of slaughter.

La seule fréquentation des mathématiques ne mûrit guère le cÅ"ur ni le caractère.

the perusal of all excellent books is, as it were, to interview with the noblest men of past ages, who have written them.