To achieve our goals of educating bold and ambitious children, we must invest in enriching, quality early child care and learning.
Interpretation
Investing in quality early child care is essential for nurturing ambitious and bold children.
Stacey Abrams emphasizes the importance of quality early childhood education as a foundation for developing children's potential. She argues that to foster boldness and ambition in children, society must prioritize investments in enriching educational environments that support their growth and development during crucial early years.
In practice
This quote can be referenced in a speech advocating for increased funding for early education programs.
I grew up one of six children with working-class parents in the Deep South. My mother was a college librarian, and my father worked in a shipyard. I never saw them balance a checkbook, but they kept a roof over our heads and got all six of us into college.
I do not Google myself, I do not read comments, and I barely look myself in the eye when I look in the mirror.
My being a black woman is not a deficit. It is a strength. Because I could not be where I am had I not overcome so many other barriers. Which means you know I'm relentless, you know I'm persistent, and you know I'm smart.
The basis for sustainable progress is legal protections grounded in an awareness of how identity has been used to deny opportunity.
I like to solve problems. I know it is a skill set, but it's also an obligation. I grew up with parents who believe that you don't simply complain: you try to find solutions and fix what's in front of you.
Here in Georgia, we continue to grapple with our own vestiges of hate. The image carved into Stone Mountain, like Confederate monuments across this state, stand as constant reminders of racism, intolerance, and division.
First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.
Instructors should not only be skilful in those sciences which they teach, but have skill in the method of teaching, and patience in the practice.
'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
Have we forgotten about the children, and thus forsaken the next generation?
I became a librarian at the Sainte-Genevieve Library in Paris. I made this gesture to rid myself of a certain milieu, a certain attitude, to have a clean conscience, but also to make a living. I was twenty-five. I had been told that one must make a living, and I believed it.
Our system rewards specific talents more than anything. I got pushed forward for having certain capacities. Others had their horizons systematically lowered for having capacities that our academic system had no use for. I've seen countless people lose heart and feel like they should settle for less, that they don't deserve abundance.
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