Quotes About Rural Education

#1. When I am telling it, it doesn't seem as if it was only made up. It seems more real than you are
more real than the schoolroom. I feel as if I were all the people in the story
one after the other. It is queer.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#2. We die at a very young age, but sometimes don't realise it until we're much older

Steven Aitchison

#3. The education needs in Silicon Valley versus rural Iowa versus Tennessee are very different.

Andy Ogle

#4. Education is very important, and the botanical garden is the place to do that. I grew up in a semi-rural area and learned from that being my playground.

Nell Newman

#5. The commands of God are given, not to rob me of joy, but lead me into the fullness of joy.

Matt Chandler

#6. No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever again have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity for an education, a job, or simple justice.

Jimmy Carter

#7. You need to support human development and human capital as much as possible. And we've had 25 years of programs, great programs. We supported 125,000 surgeries. We fund 15,000 scholarships every year for college and higher education. We gave bicycles for rural areas. We gave laptops.

Carlos Slim

#8. I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.

Lech Walesa

#9. Reared in rural southern Alabama, we enjoyed an idyllic Huck Finn boyhood. But education there was casual at best. Our mother and father were high school teachers and challenged the pervasive easy-going ignorance.

Gregory Benford

#10. Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas.

Bennie Thompson

#11. Somewhere in Rwanda, a rural farmer is dreaming of providing an education for her children. Not just high school, but maybe even a university degree. Such a dream used to seem out of reach.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

#12. Having visited Oxfam-funded school programs in rural communities has made me realise how vital education is to developing countries in bringing people out of poverty and giving them a sense of dignity, self-worth and confidence.

Scarlett Johansson

#13. Your son is no gentleman. He refused to have sex with me." Suzy

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#14. I don't really know how to do much else besides write.

Jerry Stahl

#15. I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Greg Mortenson