Angus Deaton Quotes

I tell students that even if they don't like math right now, they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a tool that not only builds the foundation for a great career, but that also builds self-confidence, no matter what they choose to do with their lives.

I'm a strong believer in kid-empowerment.

I am an engineer, but what I find important and necessary is that you just learn things as you go along.

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.

If I'm teaching girls that do love to make cookies and do love fashion - that they can use math as a part of that - you think that's me saying, come on girls you belong in the kitchen, you belong shopping? Or, do you think it's me showing them how math is part of all their life, even the part they thought it had nothing to do with?

My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.

You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.

It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

I think I've been brought up very well by both my parents. I am very cautious and I think I'm now fit for the world I'm in. They're very much behind my modelling and very supportive.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'

My parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think.

We have to prepare our students so that they become able to face any challenge rising in any environment and anywhere in the world.

As a teenager, my dad taught me about the idea of unintended consequences, and I've had the experience, and how to deal with it, pounded into my soul over the years.

I'm pretty smart.

My mum, who comes from Goa, wanted us to develop our minds when we were kids, so she used to turn the electricity off at weekends so we couldn't sit watching the telly.

My advice for parents is to support your children, make sure they are having fun. Support them and be there for them. Give them encouragement and make it a life lesson that along the way they are learning to make good decisions and do the right thing.

A lot of people ask me what my mom has taught me about modeling. The truth is the things she teaches me go deeper than what pose to make or what my good side is.

I think, personally, I learn really quick.

The truth is, I have made very few public appearances, and when I have, my parents have been very careful to allow me to have my own experience.

I want to make everyone believe that they can understand math and science.

Life is very much about making the best decisions you can. So I think chess is very valuable.

Every one of you is a super genius if you just focus your common sense.