Quotes About Education

The reason I love teaching, it's like being a miner. I find all these undiscovered jewels and, with the right motivation, they're amazed at what they can do. I have to show them their capability.

In my travels all over the world, I have come to realize that what distinguishes one child from another is not ability, but access. Access to education, access to opportunity, access to love.

The Senegalese conservationist Baba Dioum can summarize: "In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught."

I want my students to love to read. Reading is not a subject. Reading is a foundation of life, an activity that people who are engaged with the world do all the time

I love the idea of having a kid who says, 'Yeah, of course I knew about Billie Holiday and Johnny Cash when I was nine years old.'

If you do not speak to your teens about the meaning of human sexuality and love, the world will fill the void of your silence with a very contrary message.

The love of reading can be contagious.

I love learning from the filmmakers that I'm working with, but more importantly, I love learning from the crew.

Understanding who we are, where we came from, and why we are upon the earth places upon each of us a great responsibility both to learn how to learn and to learn to love learning.

There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.

intelligence is intuitive you needn't learn to love unless you've been taught to fear and hate

I love ebola jokes. When done in the right way, maybe it gets people to learn about ebola, to learn about the stigmas behind the identities held by Africans and so on.

I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.

Boston was a great town to go to college in. Maybe that's why there's so many colleges there. I love the town, and I loved Boston University.

To put it simply, school readiness means creating in this country a public love of children.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

Liberals force lower middle-class families, who love their children, to dispatch them to ghetto schools dominated by gangs of fatherless boys bearing knives.

I love basketball, but playing basketball doesn't fully define who I am. I was always a good student, too.

I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it.

No wonder politicians love government schools. Where do you think the dumb masses come from that can be so easily led and manipulated?

I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.

There is nothing better than being in a classroom with really, really brilliant students, and opening up new worlds to them. That's what I love doing.

Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it.

I love learning new techniques.