Quotes About Education

What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are prepared and ready to leave and join the economic mainstream if that's their choice.

There's no question that my son is better prepared for college than I was. He manages his time better, is more efficient and more directed, and spends less time in lines and more time doing exactly what he sets out to do.

I didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English.

Well, I always wanted to be educated and be prepared.

I went to Jersey City State College to please a family member. I wasn't prepared for school. To say I failed out is putting it nicely.

I wasn't scared of childbirth. I educated myself and did my fair share of research, and that made me feel a little more prepared.

Accountancy prepares one to be able to run very different kinds of businesses, and my background prepared me for the music.

We need students to understand how the world has changed and be prepared to make contributions in a new way.

I want to make sure kids read by the third grade and are prepared for the fourth grade. As school gets harder and kids get older, the words get bigger... If they don't understand what they are reading, they start to fall back, and their interest in school falls off.

It's easy to think that college classes are mainly about preparing you for a job. But remember: this may be the one time in your life when you have a chance to think about the whole of your life, not just your job.

Preparing youth for employment requires training that is demand-driven to meet the needs of companies and ensure that young people are taught marketable skills.

I was preparing to get into one of the IITs when I was in school. I was a good student.

Our schools are not geared toward building, preparing kids for the modern economy.

School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.

I think it's so important in preschool and in kindergarten and elementary school that we're not biasing ourselves.

No child should be expelled from preschool. And so we are calling on school districts around the country to end that practice. That benefits every child.

I taught preschool previously, so I was like, 'Oh, I can teach little kids to act, and I can go back home.'

The social and educational value of preschool is undisputed.

Shakespeare is a permanent presence in the English letters.

A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained.

I never want kids to walk away after a school presentation and say, 'I met a writer today.' I want them to say, 'I am a writer.'

There's no question there's enough information available to all of us in this society for darn near anything. The problem is the quality of the information, the presentation of it... You shouldn't have to be a lawyer.

It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.

In my writing, I want to address all communities, you know. I've spent many years talking about Chicano culture, Chicano history, and at the same time, I've also been in many communities and presented my work in many communities, in many classrooms, and that's where my vision is and my delight is and my heart is.