Education Focus Quotes

Our common education is not intended to render us good and wise, but learned: it hath not taught us to follow and embrace virtue and prudence, but hath imprinted in us their derivation and etymology;

It is really gratifying, for example, to visit India now and see that because they've had good educational institutions, and they've had a focus on it, there are more and more people in India participating in the world economy.

I would live to study, not study to live.

I am a student first, teacher second.

Like many Asian parents, mine were very focused on education. My dad would quiz me with multiplication tables when I was about 5.

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

If you don't have that science and technology and brains as an input, as you don't have in large parts of Latin America, if you don't focus your education on that, if you don't find your 10,000 best scientists, but you do find your 10,000 best soccer players, the consequences are, you become a World Cup Champion in Soccer, like Brazil, but you don't become Korea, which earned 1/5 of what a Mexican did in 1975 and today earns five times more.

Universities simply unable to play judge, jury and executioner when they're already having trouble playing educator. Resources are limited and colleges must put their focus on their primary objective: education.

I think we hear a lot of talk about college, and we don't hear about early education.

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