Quotes About Education

There's a lot to be learned about how digital media, the ability to reach anybody any time, really transforms the peer interaction experience in education at large.

President Obama is a principled man who has worked hard to put healthcare and a good education in the reach of millions of Americans and believes that everyone who works hard and plays by the rules, should have a fair shot at the American dream.

My master's was in economics, and my Ph.D. was in philosophy, and I became a professor at USP. But after three years, I was invited to be secretary of finance for Sao Paulo mayor Marta Suplicy. They reached out to be because of my economics background.

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.

I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors.

Mass literacy is a phenomenon of the past few centuries, and one that has reached the majority of the world's adult population only within the past 75 years.

There's a certain point in chemistry and in calculus where I reached the end of my abilities, and I realized, 'This is where I'm stupid.'

I see other athletes who reached a dead end in their careers for lack of good education.

In the 1960s, reaching for the moon meant just that. It was a metaphor for attempting the impossible, and we attempted it, and we did it. And it inspired millions of people in every way. The number of science graduates in this country doubled in the 1960s at every level - high school, college, Ph.D.

COVID-19 has had far reaching impacts on our state, including higher education.

When we're able to identify disparities in education, we can better determine whether federal grant programs are effectively reaching our students, allowing us to improve how to distribute and implement these funds across communities.

The way I look at it is, when you allow people to submerge themselves into a story, they will react by thinking through what it's about. That's just so much more fun and effective, I think, than a lecture.

It's the reaction I've gotten my whole life: that I learn something and try to tell people in conversation, but when I tell them, they are annoyed.

Hate is a learned reaction, and it can be unlearned.

The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are okay.

The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in action into a kind of scientific laboratory for the psychogenetic study of man.

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!

I read so many books when I was a kid that I didn't even know were shaping me up.

The printing press did something really big for the world when everyone could get books in their hands and read.

Read in order to live.

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart.

I'm a bit dyslexic so I found learning to read hard. I muddled up the letters but learnt to power through.

Educate yourself: Read up on current events and books.

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.