Quotes About Education

The audience might not be the size of Facebook, but how much time can you spend online and think, 'What did I just learn?

When I was in school I used to prank my teachers all the time. But I was really, really nice. I love to make people laugh. And even in those pranks, the teachers would laugh most of the time.

My parents couldn't afford a full time drama school, but I basically just did every class I could do, and followed every drama interest I could. When I was 15 or 16 I did drama courses.

My view of myself as an artist expanded because of the time I spent at Cal Arts.

Take some time and educate your mind, in the long run I'm sure you're fine.

I wish I had more time to visit schools.

By the time I got kicked out of school, I had nothing else to do but rap.

As soon as you understand 2 x 4 you can't believe there was a time when you didn't understand it.

We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.

When girls are asking themselves 'Who am I?' for the first time and they hear all this bad PR about math, they think, 'Well, whoever I am, I'm not somebody who likes math.'

Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems.

When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war.

I spent more time at the library than anyone my age when I was a kid.

All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school.

The 1947 Court (Everson v. Board of Education) for the first time had used only Jefferson's metaphor - completely divorced from its context and intent.

I always - I knew from day one , in college, that I wanted to be a teacher .But I don't think I had envisioned becoming a professor at the time. I remained a history major until 1951.

To make [parents] happy, I went to Fordham University for three weeks, while at the same time running ads in Variety, "magician-actor David Copperfield."

I often think of that when I hear people say that they haven't time to read.

If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it.

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.

I've done a bit of Latin in my time...but I can control it.

My education is the most important thing so I always have to make time for it.

On the plane was a Time magazine and there was a 30 page article on diabetes, and I read every page. By the time that plane landed, I had diabetes.

I was sent to the regular public schools until I had to go to Belmont Hill. Because I wasn't doing anything. The public school was nothing, just a total waste of time.