I’m from the island of St. Lucia in the Caribbean in the Lesser Antilles, the lower part of the archipelago, which is a bilingual island – French, Creole, and English – but my education is in English.
I was really aware, even while it was happening, that the discovery of arts education in my life sort of saved my life.
It doesn’t matter where you’re from. You can be from the hood or the suburbs. You can be poor with no education or a college graduate. No matter your background, you can win.
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
From a young age I had a real sense of the world of work. This is what vocational education gives you.
Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we face a long-term national economic security crisis.
What is basically just an IQ score has roots in education, socioeconomic status, genetics, and environmental factors. Looking at any one of these roots doesn’t give you a full picture of the tree, but it does tell you that a tree is there.
A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
Education is not an end to itself. You need to know algebra but also how to navigate the world.
Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and other essential services.
College costs continue to rise, and student loan debt threatens to price many Americans out of a college education and out of the middle class.
If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.
I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories.
People go to school and get educated, but most people who go to school and become a graduate in eduation still don’t know what the word ‘education’ means… ‘Educo’ means to bring out.
Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It’s about education, work, marriage – it’s even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.
A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet.
Optimizing return on capital will generate less growth than optimizing return on education.
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
Early childhood education remains one of the strongest investments we can make in the long-term success of our students and the long-term economic strength of our communities.
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don’t have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.
