Inadequate Education Quotes

Think about how stupid the average person is and then realize that half of them are stupider than that.

The wiping out of crime is so largely an economic question because much crime arises from the fact that children grow up in undesirable surroundings and have parents that have been conditioned by the same type of environment.

I've been around low-income people all of my life. I mean, growing up, low income, the community where I've chosen to live, low-income.

It is a pity that some teachers nowadays are incompetent. They do not teach the right thing to students. As a result, those teachers are the ones that are going to destroy democracy.

It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.

I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.

A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.

In Cambodia, education is really a luxury, and many kids are thrown into work as early as possible. This means they can help support their parents, as often the parents don't even earn a living wage.

Do I think I'm under-educated? Academically, absolutely. I never took any exams, no O- or A-levels.

We have young men with shoes which light up when they walk and a brain that seems dead when they talk.

There is but one sufficient excuse for Christians in suffering such evils to exist in prisons in this country, and that is that they are not acquainted with the real state of things.

For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority of blacks, the heritage of slavery, overpopulation - for why Haiti remains the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

Upon the state falls directly the ... burden of the demoralization of its citizenry and of the social unrest which attend destitution and the denial of opportunity.

We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.

I see that that 'American dream' is slipping away because we're not solving the problems of today, we're not planning for the future.

I know we have an illegitimate, swaggering, bastard, scrub aristocracy which assumes to know a great deal, but which, when the flowing veil of pretension is torn off, is seen to posses neither talent nor information on which one can rear a useful superstructure.

Poverty causes crime.

Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.

I'm a very bad teacher.

The more you look into health and health inequalities, you realize that a lot of it is not due to a particular disease - it's really linked to underlying societal issues such as poverty, inequity, lack of access to safe drinking water and housing. And these are all the things we focus on at CARE.

I come from a community plagued with so much poverty and violence and homophobia.

The side of town, the side of Louisiana that I grew up on, there's a lot of poverty.

Urbanisation, poverty, youth unemployment are leading to violence-prone cities.

In politics as in private life, [Henry] Clay is essentially a gamester, and, with a vigorous intellect, an ardent spirit, a handsome elocution, though with a mind very defective in elementary knowledge, and a very undigested system of ethics, he has all the qualities which belong to that class of human characters.

What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of violence and incivility.