Quotes About Education

People get their information in different ways now. And we are a little poorer for it, because the way you get information affects what you learn.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.

You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.

We can all get behind feeding the poorest kids in school, right?

I did poorly in math for a couple of years in middle school; I was just not interested in thinking about it.

If there are activists in Cosas and they do poorly academically, then they would be cited as examples as to why others should not be in Cosas.

Pope Francis and I went to the same school.

What we need more than anything else is an informed populace. I believe people want to be informed.

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough.

My father was not really into popular music; I had to learn about that for myself.

At the height of his popularity in 1977, Cat Stevens converted to Islam and dedicated his life to educational and philanthropic causes.

Someone said I have had my popularity diminished by getting into the controversy of national education. Perhaps they are right.

I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.

For too long, we financed our schools in a way that has systematically left large segments of our population behind.

Our great history has been that people came to Michigan because you didn't have to have a college degree to get a good-paying job. Consequently, we have got a larger number of our population that right now are facing outsourcing, et cetera, without higher or advanced degrees.

When I was 12 I worked with someone - it was actually an English teacher at my school, John Woodward. He was the only teacher in the school to have a top-of-the-range Porsche and all the trappings of success, so it was very interesting for me to find out how he did it. He was probably the wealthiest English teacher in the community.

A country can develop only when you ensure these basic rights, let them voice their opinion and give them basic education, hygiene, medication, portable water and when you empower that is true development.

Children should be taught in school that you should have all kinds of asset classes in your portfolio. They should be taught what those asset classes are, and their advantages and disadvantages.

As a matter of record, New York City spends a higher portion of its budget on instruction and associated costs within the schools themselves than any of the other 100 largest districts in the nation.

I'm going to raise my kids the opposite of how I was raised. I wasn't given healthy food, educated on portion control, or encouraged to exercise. I wish I had those things.

I went to college on the East Coast in Portland, Maine.