Quotes about "Education & Learning"

The old ways of teaching are slow and expensive. But with mobile, cost plummets, access broadens, and pedagogy rises. ”

The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese government to aggressively pursue digital education. ”

I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education. ”

If we create a generation of men who aren't getting an education, that's bad for women. ”

If we want boys to succeed, we need to bring them back to education by making education relevant to them and bring in more service learning and vocational education. ”

There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English. ”

I think the principal purpose of education is to allow each of us, when we become adults, to shape our own future. ”

The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads. ”

What we're doing now is we're saying that individual schools can spend the money on their own priorities, so that head teachers can decide what's truly important, because the big shift in approach on education that we're taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads. ”

Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve. ”