Quotes About Education

I thought I would go into philosophy and political science.

I have done masters in Political Science but deep down in my heart I wanted to be a dancer.

I'm not that politically educated.

I was raised in a home where we grew up where we discussed issues. I've always been really politically aware. My wife and four kids are very aware. They make me more attuned to a lot of things I would not think about. Especially women's issues.

I think I'm gradually becoming a more politically aware person.

I wasn't raised to make history. In high school and family, no one around me was politically involved, and few of my friends planned to attend college or even thought about it.

Some schools have decided to openly support the anti-capitalist Black Lives Matter group - often fully aware that they have the statutory duty to be politically impartial.

We have been indoctrinated to see the world through a politically correct lens.

Anyone who knows anything about me should know by now I am certainly not exactly a good politician. I am also willing to admit to you now that I never went to any classes that had anything to do political science.

I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.

Politicians need a film appreciation course.

Do you know who the real hypocrite is? It's the federal government and the Justice Department. It's a fraud; it's a lie. They have no interest in the education of black children. They are only interested in the politics of it.

America's got a Darwin problem - and it matters. According to a 2009 Gallup poll taken on the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, fewer than 40% of Americans are willing to say that they 'believe in evolution.'

More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.

Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.

I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think that's definitely a gift of genes or whatever, you know? Whatever your pool is.

Diversity and inclusion of women and underrepresented minorities in science should not affect the way education is handled or research is carried out. So diversity should not be a problem but rather an opportunity to involve a large talent pool.

Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

I wanted to be a doctor at some point, and I was always bringing home strays from school: people who were too poor to pay fees or have food. My parents never rebuked me or told me that they were hard-pressed, too.

I didn't pass the scholarship exam for Oxford because of poor mathematics.

We've learned a huge amount from organisations like Seva Mandir and Pratham, for example. In my personal experience, these organisations work on a very large scale with very poor people.

You would think that American educators would want our kids, especially our kids from poorer families, to hear what top-rated Oxford students hear. But you'd be wrong. American schools now hide their students from ideas like mine if they don't approve of the man or the message.