Quotes About Education

In school math and science were my favorite subjects, but I probably in my true self I'm more of a people person. At the same time, I don't think that's how I recharge.

Before we sent kids to computer camps and told them they were having a good time, there was imagination among the human species.

I grew up on a ranch with my father, so he educated us really early on about guns. We used to go target shooting all the time.

After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I felt college was a waste of time; I wanted to start working.

When I was young I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.

I have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it.

I've been very fortunate because many of the teachers I had were exceptional. But I didn't realize that at the time that all teachers were not alike.

At the same time, I went through college, received a Ph.D. and started to teach. I wrote books.

Examine everything that you've been taught, not simply what you've been taught in school, but the images that have been held up to you since the time of your birth.

They call me Freestyle Freddy and I'm always ready to rap. Even when I wake up from a nap. Economic devastation's kinda sweeping the nation. It's time for us to wake up and get an education.

I am intentionally avoiding the standard term which, by the way, did not exist in Euler's time. One of the ugliest outgrowths of the "new math" was the premature introduction of technical terms.

Every time I act in something, I learn something about what the director is doing. One feeds the other.

Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.

I'm even though I'm not per se sitting at a desk and in school, I'm still learning all the time.

I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education.

Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I often spent my lunch breaks there.

I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless.

Attempt to teach the young but little at a time; this will be easier to impart, easier to receive, and surer to be retained.

There was a time when I was in this private school and the kids were so conservative and close-minded that it was just appalling.

As governor, Im spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.

Student is #1. If a student comes to me and needs an hour after class of my time, I am going to give him everything without hesitation.

I personally spend the majority of my time by far on outreach and education and fundraising and administration.

I learnt, for the first time, the joys of substituting hard, disciplined study for the indulgence of day-dreaming.

I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.