Quotes About Education

If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time.

This has got to be the greatest school for lab bands in the country. It's great because Leon Breeden and his staff have devoted their lives - not just their time and talent - to build it.

[Harriet] hated math. She hated math with every bone in her body. She spent so much time hating it that she never had time to do it.

Its very difficult in our society. You cannot impose certain behavioral changes. Education can do it at the right time, probably by high school. After that it is too late.

I had dreamed about being a college coach for a long time, but with no education, I never thought I would get a chance.

College was a great time. I partied there, but I also learned how to act.

... the time will come when no servant will be hired without a diploma from some training school, and a girl will as much expect to fit herself for house-maid or cook, as for dressmaker or any trade.

A long time ago, I had an idea to make a book for preschoolers who had older siblings who were going to school.

One thing I am determined on is that by the time I die my brain shall weigh as much as a man's if study and learning can make it so.

Most of the time, I don't watch classics with anybody. I have to be by myself. That's my classroom.

National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being.

It is not time to tell the leaders to realize how important education is - they already know it - their own children are in good schools. Now it is time to call them to take action.

L'adolescence est le seul temps o u' l'on ait appris quelque chose. Adolescence is the only time when we can learn something.

Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory.

I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun.

When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in time to save me from becoming a mathematician.

I would tell everyone to go to college, no matter what. It gives you time to grow up.

I've been an advocate for public education for a long time. It's the way people are able to improve their lives.

My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure I was an early and vigorous reader.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

The lack of affordable, quality child care is a ticking time bomb.

I classify myself as a student and a teacher. This year, I'm back into the student. I try to stay balanced. I learn so much every time I walk about my door.

There are other jobs I do besides rap. I was considering going back to school so there have been a few things on my plate that I thought about doing during my time off.

My father is a university professor so when the schools needed a little kid for their productions I was often the kid they used. The first time I was ever on stage was about 2nd grade.