Educational Foundation Quotes

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Reading is the basics for all learning.

I think becoming a scientist is the product of parents who gave me enormous opportunities to master nature.

What I'm really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren't competent readers coming out of middle school, it's really going to be hard for them in high school.

Education keeps the key of life; and liberal education insures the first conditions of freedom,--namely, adequate knowledge and accustomed thought.

I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don't think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child of those first years in primary school.

As a kid who failed out of high school as a freshman, I know firsthand and personally that sense of hopelessness and just being - drifting in the wrong direction, having really no hope. And being able to harness that frustration was incredibly valuable in my life. That's one of the reasons I focus so consistently on the foundation of education, because it helps to eviscerate those things that - unemployment, high jobless rates, poverty.

I had access to books, and I could read... but that more foundational, basic historical awareness, I didn't have any of that.

Home is a child's first and most important classroom.

Taking a toddler to school is one of the most satisfying moments in my many years in public life. There is no better joy than laying the foundations of a strong future for these little children.... Friends, let us all become partners in this quest for ensuring education for all!

I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.

Home is really where education does begin.

I always say that, to me, it starts with reading. This is something I tell high school kids, college kids, people trying to get into the business, that it's just so much about reading. Read, read, read. So much of everything else falls into place when you just do a ton of reading.

Parents give birth; the Guru gives life. These life-givers are the soul of the magnificent building. The school building which the government can construct is like the body, but the teachers are the soul.

The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.

no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.

The basis of everything, of all knowledge, is the ability to read.

A good education prepares you well for anything.

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

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Education is the only solution. Education first.

Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.

The best gift from a father to his child is Education and Upbringing.

I think educating children at pre-school age is vital because then they are picking up good habits that become part of their lifestyle, so it's never going to be a big issue for them to have to learn how to do it.