Alison Gopnik Quotes

Literacy in Tunisia is almost 100%. It's amazing - no country in the region or even in Asia can match Tunisia in education.

The fact is that most people who have no skill have no education for the same reason—low intelligence or ambition.

It is by education that we become prepared for our duties and responsibilities in life. If one is badly educated he must naturally fail in the proper assumption and practice of his duties and responsibilities.

I believe in getting a good education to be able to go out into the world and make a difference.

Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.

We know everything about what you know and how you learn best because we get so much data. And education is the highest-stakes media product in your life. It's infinitely more important than your Facebook friends' status updates or your Google search results because it's your future.

It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.

Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.

Girls are going to school again in Swat Valley. And that is great.

Good schools underpin not only our economy, but the social fabric of our lives.

My brother's got two degrees. He got one for me.

Every kid, every minority kid can be so successful if they focus on their education.

They greatly respected scholarship in itself, but they also impressed upon us that there were great opportunities available for those who were well educated. I received my primary and secondary education in Chicago.

The importance of education is ingrained in Scottish history.

As of the mid-90s, over 50 percent of women have a bachelor's and master's degree, compared to about 35 percent and 30 percent, respectively, in 1920.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.

How we learn has nothing to do with how brilliant we are.

Respect for education—the idea that education will buy improvement in our lives—is one of the oldest and fundamental American ideas.

Our youth of today, it is to be feared, is backward to learn; studies are accounted irksome.

Research shows that children in smaller families tend to do better in terms of nutritional, health and educational status compared to children in larger families.

Education deserves particular focus because its effects are so long-lasting.

It is eminently proper that we also grant them opportunities of education not inferior to those available to our own children; that we encourage them to develop; that we foster men of genius in all walks of life, thereby increasing the resources of our country. And it is with this in view that I have made it possible for Formosans qualified in the Japanese language to enter schools for Japanese children. Excellent results have already been obtained, with incalculably good effect upon our policy of assimilation.

All the education programmes provided by our foundations are in pursuit of a common vision to upgrade education standards and quality of life.

If something can be proven to work, we should try it... Making sure that our young folk get the best education is the only thing that matters to me, and if something can be shown to work in doing that or if something's worth trying to do that, then I'll certainly be in the market for it.