Educational Development Quotes

Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.

Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.

Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I'm seeing a lot of countries look at this now.

The very concept of universal formal education is a product (and a relatively late product) of the capitalist world-economy.

In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.

Every mom believes her kid's school doodles are amazing, and I'm no different.

Each kid has a different level of expertise and some of them are very raw and inexperienced and some are incredibly mature and experienced. So you just have to go with what they are rather than have some abstract technique that you're going to try to apply to them.

If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.

Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.

Educational progress is a national concern; education is a private one.

Across the world, in Africa, Asia, Latin America, everywhere, there is a widespread recognition on the part of the parents, too, that the children's life will go much better by being educated. And that applies to girls as well as boys.

I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

We’re suggesting that [kids are] missing something if they don’t read but, actually, we’re condemning kids to a lesser life. If you had a sick patient, you would not try to entice them to take their medicine. You would tell them, ‘Take this or you’re going to die.’ We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

Cultivate those who can teach you.

I am indebted to my mother for the efflorescence of my knowledge.

Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.

I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.

Regarding African education in this country, there was a time when the government took no interest whatsoever in African education. It was the churches, that part of civil society, which bought land, built schools, and employed and paid teachers. People like myself, right from grade eight up to university, I was in missionary schools.

Historically, absolute IQ scores have risen substantially as we've changed our environment so that more people go to school longer.

To get education to sink deep into the minds of a nation takes a generation and more.

I think just as armament had a major impact of a negative kind in the world, education is something which has a major impact of a positive kind in the world. And I think the American population, with its humanity and with its concern about the future of the world, has a real reason to think about what it can do to help the world in expanding education.

I was a teacher and an administrator at Parson's School of Design, and as an administrator, I was associate dean. And in that role, I went around fixing things that were broken. And the Parson's fashion program was broken.So fashion chose me. It needed to be developed and evolve. I don't know if it comes naturally to anyone.

I think this generation can play a very important role. If we act now, this could be the first generation to witness universal education.

Nothing would more effectively further the development of education than for all flogging pedagogues to learn to educate with the head instead of with the hand.

In the sciences particularly the large public universities must and do take an active role in fostering creativity and independence; otherwise the fields will wither, and along with them even the aspirations of wealth and power.