Educate Quotes - Page 13

• It's the writer's job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Jobs, Character, Stage

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.189, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• the truth is that it's far easier to make a bomb than to educate four hundred million people.

  Arundhati Roy

  People, Bombs, Four

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The Algebra of Infinite Justice”, p.38, Penguin Books India

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• A child can educate just about anybody.

  Garrison Keillor

  Children

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• Not judginess, but openness and curiosity are our proper business. I'm still trying to educate myself. I don't think you need to keep rehearsing your instincts. Far better to seek out models of what you can't do.

  John Updike

  Thinking, Curiosity, Trying

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• God uses prayer to educate His people and to produce holiness of character in them.

  Harold Lindsell

  Prayer, Character, People

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• Educate yourself, learn about what refugees face when they don't have homes, after they have lost everything.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Home, Faces, Lost Everything

  "Web Exclusive Interview: Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini to Speak on Refugee Crisis at Event in Lafayette". Interview with Peter Crooks, www.diablomag.com. April 2009.

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• You better educate yourself. You don't stand in the front of the line unless you're up there because you know everything that's involved.

  John Calipari

  Lines, Knows, Involved

  Source: sports.usatoday.com

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• I don't mind the job of saying to white people, "Yes, this is what I think you need to know, this is what I think you've been missing." And it's my job to educate white folks every day.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Jobs, Thinking, White

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You have to create the space for the possibility of people speaking as they do. If writing is supposed to lead us in any way or educate or suggest other ways of being, it can't do so by simply reflecting what's considered to be realistic. I'm not a realist in that way.

  Lynne Tillman

  Writing, Space, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I firmly believe that if you help a woman, then you educate a child, you help the family. Because women are very focused on health care and education and on the family. So if you help a woman, you help the family, you help the village, you help the country. And so empowering women is a very important part of moving, not just women forward, but the economy of the nation forward. Particularly in very substandard nations.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Country, Children, Moving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Education will lead to understanding; understanding will lead to action. Education and understanding are going to be key to moving us forward. That's why I take every opportunity I can to try to educate Canadian people on the impact of intergenerational trauma. To tell them how, until 1951, indigenous people weren't allowed to leave the reserve without a permit. That it was illegal for a lawyer to give us advice. It was illegal for us to sell our wood, our cattle, without a permit. I want the next generation to understand we have endured, we have persevered and we are getting stronger.

  Perry Bellegarde

  Moving, Opportunity, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• My job, as an actor, is to entertain people. My contribution to society is to be a respite from everyday life. People go home and watch television or they go to the movies, and they get to escape their reality. But if I can do entertainment that also maybe can educate people, educate myself, move people's hearts and minds, in some way, and bring light to some injustice, that's when entertainment is at its best. And if somebody wants to get more involved in a socially active way, that's when you've done the thing that I've always wanted to be a part of.

  Paula Patton

  Moving, Heart, Home

  Source: collider.com

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• Theatre can entertain, provoke, challenge, investigate, comfort and educate. It's arrogant of a playwright to think education is more important than anything else. Writing for the theatre does not give you permission to lecture, hector or bore.

  Alistair Beaton

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Many activists just see what's wrong: they want to stand up to injustice and educate people about it. But I think it's equally important for activists to hold a more positive vision of what's right with their country: what's going well, and what they'd like to grow or see more of. I also like to encourage activists to take some time each day to sit silently or take a walk in nature as a way to be in touch with their inner wisdom and peace - and to remember why they are on this path in the first place.

  Corinne McLaughlin

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• It started with Ronald Reagan, when he took away the financing to the California universities. It used to be cheap to send your kids to the UCs. They'd call it an investment, because the more you educate people, the more they'll pay in taxes, because they'll get better jobs. But Reagan said, "No, it's a cost, so you're going to have to pay the cost." So now people can't afford to get an education. Anyway, I don't want to get too political, but yeah, I think the spirit of this country is finally coming back, and hopefully it will triumph.

  Tim Matheson

  Country, Kids, Thinking

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I like complex characters. I've been very, very lucky to portray, in these past three years, characters that are strong and fragile at the same time. It's those characters that I'm looking for. In the last year and half I played three different religions, and that allowed me to educate myself so much.

  Moran Atias

  Strong, Character, Past

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm just absolutely convinced we have to educate our way to a better economy. That's the only way we're going to get there. This is the best long-term investment we can make. And so I think it's my job to be the truth-teller.

  Arne Duncan

  Thinking, Investment, Economy

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• I try to educate people. I've told the hijra community that it's not about getting breasts or having sexual reassignment surgery. First we need our rights. We need our dignity. We need inclusion in every bloody policy for the marginalized. We need education. We need dignified shelter. There are many like me who are able to earn without begging. But the fact is that before even coming into the social sector, I was running a dance class, and before that I was a model coordinator. I didn't want to beg, or do sex work, or sell myself.

  Laxmi Narayan Tripathi

  Running, People, Community

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It's good to be happy and tell us how cool your life is and how awesome you are on social media. It inspires other people to be happy, too. But a lot of times, people are trying to be happy in the wrong ways - with money or with different things that are not true happiness. It's leading people down a rabbit hole that actually doesn't exist. So people think like, "Yo, once I get this money and these cars and stuff, I'ma be so happy." But that's not true. And I feel like that's why it's very important to educate people on different things while you are actually on social media.

  Jaden Smith

  Thinking, Media, Car

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Women are rising slowly but steadily into full partnership with men all over the world. This is going to change everything. When the rich mind- style of women is available - with an emphasis on process, rather than on end-product, and on making things cohere, grow and interlink - - then it changes the way we educate, it changes the way we govern, it changes the way we worship.

  Jean Houston

  Men, Mind, Style

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• One thing I'd like to just keep on doing is I want to educate people about animal behavior and about autism. I've been doing autism talks for the last 20 years and there still are people out there that do not want to, they can't recognize that these sensory problems are real. That, for some of these kids when that fire alarm goes off, that really hurts the ears, it's a really real thing.

  Temple Grandin

  Hurt, Real, Kids

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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• If you educate women, family size tends to go down.

  Jane Goodall

  Size, Ifs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My family tried to educate me in the way they thought a young woman should be. But I wanted to learn about mathmatics. I must have gotten that from my father, he was a master of math and science, and I always liked that sort of thing, too. Of course my mother and father did not agree with me on becoming more educated in mathmatics, but I was persistent and eventualy they gave in and I was taught by a wonderful teacher.

  Florence Nightingale

  Mother, Teacher, Father

  Source: imperialismeraflorencenightingale.blogspot.com

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• From a young age, [James Baldwin] was watching all those different films. He's watching John Wayne killing off the Indians. He came to the point that the Indians were him. You had to educate yourself because the movies were not educating you. The movies were giving you a reflection of you that was not the truth. That's the trick. The movie was also giving a reflection of what the country is. Basically, a country that wanted itself to be innocent. That's the ambivalence of Hollywood.

  Raoul Peck

  Country, Reflection, Giving

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• We've been brainwashed into thinking that it takes more monies than it actually does to educate children. That's been one of the brainwash jobs.

  Marva Collins

  Jobs, Children, Thinking

  Source: reason.com

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