Quotes About Education

I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.

An educated man ... is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.

We are very fond of books. You can learn nearly everything from them that rabbits can't teach you.

Yes, I was actually an acting teacher for a while.

You really have to be a morning person if you want to be a teacher.

No act of knowledge acquisition is entirely without risk.

You will encounter misguided people from time to time. That's part of life. The challenge is to educate them when you can, but always to keep your dignity and self-respect and persevere in your personal growth and development.

The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.

I believe that children have to grow up as all-round personalities, but it cannot be at the cost of academics.

Education needs to be personalized and flexible, which means education policy needs to originate from our local communities and not from some bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?'

I think you always learn something in every character you play onstage, either personally or creatively.

Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.

I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology.

In general, I avoided giving lectures or attaching myself while abroad to a university. To learn what I wanted to know, I went instead to rural communities and onto actual farms. Talk with university people, government officials and U.S. personnel stationed in the country was much less rewarding for me.

Companies want to be able to hire employees with an elite university diploma to make their personnel lists look impressive.

School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.

I got into Shakespeare and all of that stuff in high school and then got out of it because it got too complicated. But all of those things just helped me to put words together. It gave me a different perspective.

If I'm going to talk about something, I need to be educated about it, and I need to have seen all the perspectives.

I have an amazing education through my wife on female fans and perspectives on it. Things that I never would have thought of.

We rich people have been falsely persuaded by our schooling and the affirmation of society, and have convinced ourselves, that we are the main job creators. It's simply not true.

I would love to bring the children from my foundation Sinfonia por el Peru to play with some of the best musicians in the world.

This is always one of my big pet peeves is that 65% of NBA players, three years out of the NBA, are broke. I mean, so, maybe maturing a little more on the front end and getting an education might serve you well down the road.