Quotes About Community Education

#1. There's nothing worse than when someone takes a community education course and becomes an expert on how yoga is the best way to burn the visceral fat that's housed deep in your abdomen.

Dan John

#2. Everyone can find what is wrong with a society but only a few can lead toward the betterment of a community.

Debasish Mridha

#3. I started attending community college when I was 14 or 15, just doing general education stuff like history and mathematics. Then I went on to California State University Long Beach to pursue a degree in journalism. And then I ended up dropping out to found Oculus.

Palmer Luckey

#4. I'm looking for things that are really connected - education, both in the developing world and at home. The way that that affects communities and, in particular, women.

Sophia Bush

#5. The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things education must try to produce.

Virginia Gildersleeve

#6. All it takes for generosity to flow is awareness. By actively pursuing awareness and knowledge, we can make choices that cause less harm and greater good to others in the global community of our shared earth.

Zoe Weil

#7. That's the beauty of education, kids taking lessons out of the classroom and back into their own world where they can positively affect their family, their friends, and their greater community.

Erin Gruwell

#8. The real education is when you awaken and nourish and guide the inner spirit, this inner genius. The community grows from the giving of the gifts of the people in it, which is really giving from the genius.

Michael Meade

#9. An intensive human rights education for all communities needs to be provided to overcome the old prejudices.

Ruth Manorama

#10. You may be hurt or not recognized for the good you do for your community, society, and humanity but be forgiving and do your best anyway.

Debasish Mridha

#11. When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage.

Rand Paul

#12. If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.

Greg Mortenson

#13. Browsing for books with a mouse and screen is not nearly as joyful an act as wandering the stacks and getting lost in the labyrinthine corridors of knowledge. The best libraries are places of imagination, education and community. The best libraries have mystery to them.

Sam Weller

#14. In my life, the stories I have heard from my family, my friends, my community, and from willing strangers all over the world have been the true source of my education.

Holly Near

#15. The beauty of life is sharing life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. Instead of saving for someone else's college education, I'm currently saving for a luxury retirement community replete with golf carts and handsome young male nurses who love butterscotch.

Jen Kirkman

#17. How does worship, or education, or community interaction form the kind of character that actually does what Jesus calls for - become actively engaged in being a peacemaker?

Glen H. Stassen

#18. The actual theme of corruption can condemn humanity and this conflict can be resolved when people are diligent to put an end to this catastrophe as a community.

Saaif Alam

#19. Get the
Jews out of banking and they cannot control the economic life
of the community. Get the Jews out of education and they cannot
pervert the minds of the young to their subversive doctrines.
Get the Jews out of government and they cannot betray the
nation.

Eustace Mullins

#20. If doctors are paid the same salary as bus drivers, community would not be crazy about making their children doctors

Nouman Ali Khan

#21. Education remains one of the black community's most enduring values. It is sustained by the belief that freedom and education go hand in hand, that learning and training are essential to economic quality and independence.

Marian Wright Edelman

#22. All around the world, there are many great schools, wonderful teachers, and inspiring leaders who are working creatively to provide students with the kinds of personalized, compassionate, and community-oriented education they need.

Ken Robinson

#23. In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.

Barack Obama

#24. It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.

Adam Braun

#25. Education is a bipartisan issue that concern all communities of color and should be first, last and always about the student learning.

J. C. Watts

#26. As a community, I wish to sit together and think for the betterment of the society. I would like to see prosperity, peace, and an expansion of happiness in the community.

Debasish Mridha

#27. Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class.

Thomas Perez

#28. It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?

Adam Braun

#29. Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard.

Luis Fortuno

#30. A community of people, that's the really what art school is.

Ross Bleckner

#31. Educate a boy, and you educate an individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community.

Adelaide Hoodless

#32. The Figurehead of American Public Education Who Prefers Private Religious Education (!)All things equal, I would prefer to have a child in a school that has a strong appreciation for the values of the Christian community, where a child is taught to have a strong faith.

Rod Paige

#33. As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.

Ed Pastor

#34. The difference that a drama group or a cinema club can make to a small village or a town. It opens people up to ideas, potential about themselves that really, in a way, education often fails to. It's a way of drawing a community together.

Gabriel Byrne

#35. I would even say that my parents, and their friends in our community, thought of education as a kind of armor against racism.

Condoleezza Rice

#36. Because of the flexibility that community colleges afford, many students do not have to choose between an education and fulfilling other responsibilities - they can do both.

Jill Biden

#37. Growing up in Augusta in such a protected and loving community is something that I really enjoy talking about. I love talking about - even though I grew up, of course, in the time of segregated schools: Brown vs. Board of Education came along after I was already in first grade.

Jessye Norman

#38. The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual efforts of citizens, and from those burdens of taxation which they voluntarily impose upon themselves.

James A. Garfield

#39. The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects we study that the two most important things in civilised life are Art and Science.

Anthony Burgess

#40. No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.

Brad Henry

#41. I think one of the unique aspects of Catholic school education is the opportunity to care for the material and intellectual needs of the child in a community atmosphere.

Mark Foley

#42. We are here to say that if you are evil enough to threaten the life of a child, if you are evil enough to interfere with their education, and if you are evil enough to place in danger the future of our communities, you ought to be punished in a very special way.

Jose Peralta

#43. Profanity influences mental harm for the community and people should be aware of it.

Saaif Alam

#44. My wish for the community is a great deal of confidence, optimism, and pride. Together we can create a great future for this community.

Debasish Mridha

#45. Meaningful student involvement is the process of engaging students as partners in every facet of school change for the purpose strengthening their commitment to education, community & democracy.

Adam Fletcher

#46. When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal.

Garrison Keillor

#47. Earning money is not the sole objective of life or education. A community of any quality should have a whole range of skills and interests. They should paint, write, perform, visit art galleries and enjoy world-class concerts. Only then will they form a vibrant, rounded, interesting community.

Goh Chok Tong

#48. The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.

Ken Robinson

#49. Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.

Rudolf Virchow

#50. Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.

Alice Waters

#51. I didn't go to high school, I didn't go to college, I didn't have women's studies. All of my feminist ideals and education have been built around art and my friends and community. And so it's still growing.

Kathleen Hanna

#52. You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community.

Alan Autry

#53. Education comes from living life, following passions, accessing information, observing, reflecting, and being inspired by wise and courageous elders in the community.

Claire Aumonier

#54. The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community.

Norman Cousins

#55. Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

Marian Wright Edelman

#56. There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls.

Horace Mann

#57. Education is not a tool for development - individual, community and the nation. It is the foundation for our future. It is empowerment to make choices and emboldens the youth to chase their dreams.

Nita Ambani

#58. One modest suggestion for my friends in the academic community: the next time a mob of students, waving their non-negotiable demands, starts pitching bricks and rocks at the student union- just imagine they are wearing brown shirts or white sheets- and act accordingly.

Spiro T. Agnew

#59. In England, coffeehouses were dubbed penny-universities, because for the admission price of one cent, a person could sit and be edified all day long by scholars, merchants, travelers, community leaders, gossips, and poets.

Leah Hager Cohen

#60. Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether they involve welfare, youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence and abuse.

Jonathan Sacks

#61. The Ryan White Care Act provides money for community-based counseling centers. While that may sound noble and compassionate, we know from experience that "AIDS education" becomes a platform for the homosexual community to recruit adolescents and lure teens into a self-destructive sexual lifestyle.

Christine O'Donnell

#62. Community colleges are the great American invention in terms of education,

Eduardo J. Padron

#63. The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

Sam Houston

#64. I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.

Jon Secada

#65. Such enquiry cannot avoid the ethical dimension to education, the different ways in which people (teachers, wider community and learners) find value in some experiences and activities rather than in others.

Richard Pring

#66. Rule #1: No cut or compromise should be suggested by ANY member of the community. This includes the music coalition, music educators, and the music supervisor.
Suggest a cut or compromise, and you become responsible for the decision.

John Benham

#67. The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life problem.

Albert Einstein

#68. I will suggest that the great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part.

Annie Besant

#69. School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.

Bunker Roy

#70. Once you have women liberated, it's amazing how many other problems get resolved
pover ty, education, health. Women are the key in any community.

Desmond Tutu

#71. As a person who grew up in a border town, it is important to me that I use my education and my art to tell human stories of an otherwise neglected and marginalized community.

Raul Castillo

#72. Women who are interested in pursuing bachelor's and master's degrees - especially in STEM fields - benefit from starting at a community college. They offer an affordable education, with flexible schedules and degrees close to home.

Jill Biden

#73. Don't judge a community by how much they are suffering but judge them by how much they are learning from it. That is what really matters.

Debasish Mridha

#74. Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.

Barbara Mikulski

#75. I definitely want to focus on economic development, because that is what is needed in the community, as well as education.

Jose Peralta

#76. What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that that must community want for all it's children.

John Dewey

#77. Future public education will require involvement and collaboration among various local, civic, private and nonprofit entities, a concept I like to refer to as 'community entrepreneurship.'

Donald Bren

#78. Yahoo! is dedicated to promoting community awareness through outreach, education and information access.

David Filo

#79. Philip Greenspun had a huge impact on me. He was the first person I knew of that embraced online communities, created a real business around open source, gave back to the community through education, and inspired me to explore photography.

Matt Mullenweg

#80. I would like to inspire the community by envisioning, enabling, energizing and ensuring.

Debasish Mridha

#81. Having got the best of education myself, I firmly believe it is my personal obligation to give back to the community.

Romesh Wadhwani

#82. The best education I received was working with people in the community on a grassroots basis. Because what it taught me was that ordinary people, when they are working together can do extraordinary things.

Barack Obama

#83. The connectedness of things is what the great university is all about, and I believe the great university in the coming century will be described as a community of scholars.

Ernest L. Boyer

#84. When I retired from active duty, I still felt that I owed something to my community. That's why I pursued education ... I still miss the classroom and recall those days fondly.

Paul Cook

#85. Education in the true sense, of course, is an enablement to serve-both the living human community in its natural household or neighborhood and the precious cultural possessions that the living community inherits or should inherit.

Wendell Berry

#86. I grew up in libraries, and I hope I've learned never to take them for granted. A thriving library is the heart of its community, providing access to information and educational opportunities, bringing people together, leveling the playing field, and archiving our history.

Josie Brown

#87. Some of the world's biggest challenges can be solved by some of the world's most marginalized communities themselves. The moment you inject information, education, and an entrepreneurial spark in a community, it gets empowered enough to inspire, build, and uplift itself.

Sharad Vivek Sagar