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  • There is a massive disconnect between requirements of our education system and the framed policies. Education policies in our country [India] are not thought through enough.

    "'There is a disconnect between government policies and ground realities of primary education in India.' – Shaheen Mistri, CEO, Teach for India". Interview with Alok Soni, yourstory.com. January 17, 2013.
  • In Burma, we need to improve education in the country - not only primary education, but secondary and tertiary education. Our education system is very very bad. But, of course, if you look at primary education, we have to think in terms of early childhood development that's going back to before the child is born - making sure the mother is well nourished and the child is properly nurtured.

    Source: www.voanews.com
  • The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

  • The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity and individual happiness are so much to depend.

    Thomas Jefferson (1990). “Public and private papers”, Vintage Books
  • Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

  • Early childhood development has proved to be very beneficial and very cost-effective in societies where this is been tried. So let's not confine ourselves to primary education. Let's think of early childhood development and education as a whole.

    Source: www.voanews.com
  • South Korea from a country that had relatively little primary education became close to universal literacy in the course of 25, 30 years, in a way trying to replicate what Japan had done earlier. They were learning to some extent from the Japanese experience too. So I think, in a sense, the East Asians were following a path, which all other countries including South Asia could follow but chose not too.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.

    Girl   Home   Motherhood  
  • Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

  • One way in which Americans have always been exceptional has been in our support for education. First we took the lead in universal primary education; then the “high school movement” made us the first nation to embrace widespread secondary education.

    "Ignorance Is Strength". www.nytimes.com. March 8, 2012.
  • Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

    ABC of Reading (1934) ch. 8
  • The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

  • How have people come to be taken in by The Phenomenon of Man? We must not underestimate the size of the market for works of this kind [pseudoscience/'woo'], for philosophy-fiction. Just as compulsory primary education created a market catered for by cheap dailies and weeklies, so the spread of secondary and latterly tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought.

  • The higher education has always appealed to the South Asian social leaders across all the countries in South Asia. But primary education has been neglected. The oddity, by the way, is if you look at the contrast in India, there are some areas like Kerala where there's a long history of educational development.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • Education spurs growth and unlocks potential. After all, a single year of primary education creates a 10 to 20 percent increase in a woman's wages later in life. Education lowers the risk of disease and decreases the likelihood that a child will fall into violence and crime. And a child born to a literate mother is 50 percent more likely to survive past age five. No country has achieved sustained growth without at least 40 percent literacy for its adults.

    Source: www.americasquarterly.org
  • I think in those countries, including my own in India, where I think primary education has been badly neglected by successive governments, I blame the opposition as much. Why have they allowed the government to get away with it?

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

    "The 100 best nonfiction books: No 68 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (1845)" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2017.
  • Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

    "A Case of Hypochondria". Newsweek, July 6, 1970.
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