Quotes About Education

No country and no people can be free and ignorant at the same time.

A parenting program should provide time for parents to clarify their own ideas about what it means to be an effective and successful parent.

At the same time, [princess Margaret] had a fragility and an insecurity in who she was and her position, because her sister had always got the education ever since David [Edward VIII] abdicated.

For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.

At that [childhood] time, of course, if you were involved in art, it was going to be drawing and painting, because that's the only thing that was taught in the schools.

I went to the Chicago Art Institute, which was the best painting school in the area at that time. And I took painting classes - basic elementary painting classes and drawing classes of all sorts.

I mainly buy books in my free time.

I'll bet you the time ain't far off when a woman won't know any more than a man.

The young man who has the combination of the learning of books with the learning which comes of doing things with the hands need not worry about getting along in the world today, or at any time.

First rule of writing: When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.

I've been trying to write. I also spent a lot of time on different campuses, in conversation, helping other writers. That's what I do: I teach them writing.

I want to have schools and libraries and other institutions named after me. I tell my daughter that all the time.

A little-known fact about me: I read all the time.

What I learned in my time isn't necessarily being taught now, and I'd like to help impart that knowledge to a new generation of players.

It's the only time my education has come in remotely handy. -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing" script into Russian to acquire a Slavic accent.

I realize, of course, that I wasn't born knowing how to read. I just can't imagine a time when I didn't know how.

My mom wasn't, like, she was reading all these historical romance novels the majority of the time. She read a feminist book and then my dad would sit down and explain it to her like she was an idiot.

I was fantastically well versed by the time I left school. I had a teacher who put A Clockwork Orange my way, and Catcher in the Rye.

I want to spend my time at colleges and universities.

Always beware of people offering you one-time money. That only works in an election year. How are you going to permanently pay for education?

I was allowed to have an imagination rather than a need to be entertained all the time by television or computers or anything like that. So, I think it's helpful to try and give your kids.

I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still.

I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.

By the time I entered this prestigious high school, my interest in formal education had already been exhausted.