Quotes About Education

I am on an album with theater icon Billy Porter called the 'Soul of Richard Rodgers.' Our duet is called 'Carefully Taught.'

The whole idea of how people will learn computer science, I believe will be through game development.

I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.

In an ideal world for me, school lunch would be free for everybody.

I love the ideals of my country. But I hate that we've been so denied any real knowledge of the world and don't have the education to think clearly, so we vote against our economic interest and believe in our most shallow first thoughts of fear and hatred.

Harvard is the home of American ideas.

It is necessary and critical for states to have flexibility to determine how to identify and improve schools.

You can't just abandon accountability measures in schools... Educators want that because otherwise they can't identify achievement-gap issues for students.

I think it is necessary to educate folks on trans issues and to make them aware of trans identities and normalise it, because it is normal. But when you're shielded from something, and it's actively censored, it takes a negative connotation.

It is in college that one gathers confidence as the mind is open to ideologies.

I tend to read a lot of books and believe in a certain ideology.

Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

We didn't even have a T.V. in my house until I was 13. My dad called it the 'idiot box.'

The resistance to science is idiotic.

I have seen 'Munnabhai MBBS' and '3 Idiots' around 20 times.

My mom said I was not going to be an idle child, so I had things to do every day after school.

I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.

Shortly after my dad died, my mom figured that if I could do a few commercials, I'd get a college fund.

I knew that I was smart enough to learn. I knew that I could learn, if I could just go to school and not hear gunshots.

I would read all day if I could.

If I could, I would like my son to study in Jamshedpur, where I did my schooling.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.

It is hardly fair to accuse us of ignorance when it was made a crime under the former order of things to learn enough about letters to even read the Word of God.