Education Quote by Olusegun Obasanjo Download Open image “School is not meant for the poor, only for the rich.” — Olusegun Obasanjo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Education Inspirational Laughable Money Nigeria Poor Poverty Rich School
If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So… — Kathleen Blanco Copy Share Image
Education is not a way to escape poverty, it is a way of fighting it. — Julius Nyerere Copy Share Image
Kids in high poverty are much more expensive to educate and need much more support... When they're packed into a classroom of 40 people,… — Gretchen Whitmer Copy Share Image
“Virtually all of the advantage that wealthy students have over poor students is the result of differences in the way privileged kids learn while… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
It's definitely not the case that every child living in poverty is eligible for free school lunches. — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
Poverty is not really as much of an obstacle to educational expansion as it's sometimes made out to be. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and… — John Amos Comenius Copy Share Image
To me, education is the way out of poverty. And it is the only way. — Sherry Lansing Copy Share Image
Poverty is so significant that we can't expect to overcome the impacts of poverty in schools. — Michelle Rhee Copy Share Image
Even Jesus Christ cannot conduct a free and fair election in Nigeria. — Olusegun Obasanjo Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy,… — Olusegun Obasanjo Copy Share Image
Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice. — Olusegun Obasanjo Copy Share Image
Femi Fani Kayode is my boy. Provide him food, he will eat and then sing for you. He’s a smart boy — Olusegun Obasanjo Copy Share Image
At the same time, African aims to intensify cooperation with China in the fields of trade, investment and agriculture. — Olusegun Obasanjo Copy Share Image
I am a black man inside and outside and you are white men on the outside, but inside, you are Africans like me. — Olusegun Obasanjo Copy Share Image
I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end. — Olusegun Obasanjo Copy Share Image
We will work to bring an element of stability to the price of oil. — Olusegun Obasanjo Copy Share Image
When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own. — Olusegun Obasanjo Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will not obtain in it a looking-glass; if he has not a skin of tin he will not be able to endure the toil of education; if he has not leaden posteriors he will not be able… — Ioannes Amos Commenius Copy Share
“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by” — H.D. (Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper. And now that I can take it . . . now that I can finally do it . . . I'm really… — Erica Jong Copy Share
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image
