Melinda Gates Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

• Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It's bad business, and it's bad policy. But we act as if it can't be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.

  Melinda Gates

  Change, Education, School

• Think, for a moment, about our educational ladder.
  We've strengthened the steps lifting students from elementary school to junior high, and those from junior high to high school.
  But, that critical step taking students from high school into adulthood is badly broken. And it can no longer support the weight it must bear.

  Melinda Gates

  Inspirational, Strength, Strong

• Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it's increasingly girls, not boys, who don't know how to read.

  Melinda Gates

  Girl, Fall, School

  Source: www.yahoo.com

• I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.

  Melinda Gates

  Daughter, School, Kids

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

• Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I'm seeing a lot of countries look at this now.

  Melinda Gates

  Girl, Country, School

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

• In the developing world, they don't have smartphones yet. They have the older plastic phones, but women are saving money on those, because they don't have access to banks. Having that access to digital money changes everything for her because she actually doesn't have to negotiate with her husband, which she will tell you is very hard in these circumstances, especially when the means are meager. She's expected to have money to pay for the kids' health or to help with the school fees.

  Melinda Gates

  Husband, School, Mean

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

• If you can't go to secondary school, the boys get to go and the girls don't, you're locked into a cycle of poverty, because you don't have a chance.

  Melinda Gates

  Girl, School, Boys

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

• My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.

  Melinda Gates

  Running, School, Marketing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.

  Melinda Gates

  Children, School, Thinking

  "Philantropist Melinda Gates advocates for Americans to make education top domestic issue in 2008 election". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. April 25, 2007.

• Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what's wrong with the school system.

  Melinda Gates

  Fall, School, Kids

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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