Education Quotes - Page 22

The real competitive advantage will come to countries and companies who differentiate their offerings through education, innovation, and productivity.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.

If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

The list of costly services that supplement some children's public education is growing longer and now includes consultants, tutors, and test prep. That's in addition to the homework help some stay-at-home parents can afford to provide.

Child labour is a global problem that needs a response from all sides. This means measures to help reduce poverty, improve education, enforce laws, improve employment prospects for adults, and ensure there are no benefits in employing children under working age.

In our education system, we're so focused on the building blocks that sometimes we try to keep the kids from looking at the larger picture.

When you compare individuals, rather than countries, you find that education improves both income and the quality of life.

Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

Ending the school-to-prison pipeline is not a small task and requires detangling the myth of white superiority from our entire education system.

Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.

Global education is not a zero-sum game. The rise of universities in Asia will be a benefit to the entire world.

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.

Students want free education because their parents are struggling. The fees of universities and technikons are too high.

I had a very, very interesting childhood, but, oh my, education was the primary focus in our family.

Desegregation of schools does not automatically transform them into better schools. It is only a step. The larger goal is to see that the education of our youth is not merely desegregated, but that it is excellent.

The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available.

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

This journey of education and breaking stigma around HIV is something that will have a legacy everlasting.

Our universities and museums are respected around the country.

Education is popular but very low standard. No wonder the Philippine economy is bankrupt.

Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we face a long-term national economic security crisis.

I would say that something important for me and for my generation in Northern Ireland was the 1947 Education Act, which allowed students who won scholarships to go on to secondary schools and thence to university.

Jeb Bush is the foremost authority on education reform in the Republican Party, and I will look to reform the ballooning costs of our higher education system along the lines that he has advocated.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.