Quotes About Education

My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.

Anti-Americanism is often the product of limits on free speech, education systems that promote bias and the practice of some leaders of saying one thing abroad and the opposite at home.

Within weeks of the Ebola hoax dying down, the guys at Health Africa International approached my friends George Weah, Mahamadou Diarra, and I to be part of the initiative in using various forms of communication to promote a Ebola prevention education programme.

I love to get involved with the community by doing programs that promote literacy and education.

Reading and writing is so important, and it's something I am really keen to promote. It's something that can be a bit lost these days with so much else going on.

Not much is done to promote non-cricket sports in India. There is a lot of talk about how sports needs to reach the grassroots and how it should be introduced as a subject in school, but nothing has been done to that effect.

It's important to promote tennis in inner city schools so kids in those areas have access to the sport.

I always had this concept of mobile theatre, to promote the learning of acting.

The programs on Public Broadcasting help promote our state to the world and educate our people.

I want to promote doubles, educate people and media about doubles.

I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.

Promoting education is an effort that is close to my heart. Illiteracy contributes to poverty; encouraging children to pick up a book is fundamental.

There's nothing like the joy of the arts, and promoting the arts early in children is going to give them such a start in life in a way.

From toothpastes to crayons, instant noodles, chocolates and energy drinks, corporate India is now promoting these in schoolrooms.

I wanted to be a fashion journalist and went to the London College of Fashion to do a journalism and promotion course.

Advertisers with their bag of goodies and promotions have entered classrooms and begun to put up billboards and posters inside schools. They persuade cash-starved schools into opening their doors to them by paying for access to classrooms and space for their advertising material and promotions.

Kids are prone to be on their phone and their iPads, prone to sharing things and making things. Instead of trying to divorce education from that, let's lean into that.

Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.

To me, the burden of proof isn't on people looking for ways to improve our schools; it's on people who want to keep things the same. Our current system isn't working, and too many kids are being left behind.

Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

There's a huge generational gap between the Soviet-school journalists and the new journalists. We were not brought up working on propaganda; we were brought up in the new Russia, working on the news.

The idea of 'talking white,' a lot of people grew up around that, just the idea that if you speak with proper diction and come off as educated that it's not black and that it's actually anti-black and should be considered only something that white people would do.

It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.

I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.