Quotes About Education

I grew up a lot by going to college. I was still really immature.

When I taught a civil rights class at the University of Maryland Law School, I would do an exercise with my students. I'd write 'civil rights' on the board and ask them to tell me what immediately came to mind.

We're having to spend a lot of time teaching our entrepreneurs how to teach and, I tell you, it isn't easy and that's why we should have an immense amount of respect for our teachers.

Getting a good education was of immense importance to my parents.

Music helps immensely with math skills, and math skills help immensely with music skills.

I was 7 years old when 'Roots' was first broadcast, and my parents gathered all us kids around the TV to learn about how we got here. But it wasn't until I sat down and immersed myself in the research that I got the barest inkling of what it meant to be a slave.

As a young black immigrant at an inner-city school, I saw how poverty of ambition left many from disadvantaged backgrounds on the scrap-heap.

Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans.

The library helps lower- and middle-income people - immigrants - get their shot at the American dream.

A lot of schools benefit from parents who are first- or second-generation immigrants, who expect the best for their children.

We were second-generation immigrants, and it was luxury enough to go to college. The luxury of the arts was still a generation away.

Only 36 percent of Americans could pass a multiple-choice civics test of the kind that is administered to immigrants seeking to become citizens.

I went to a predominantly African-American school. I didn't even understand our immigration system. I knew my parents immigrated here.

People can really have an impact on a campaign and learn an awful lot. It can be an enjoyable experience.

I feel like every teacher out there has a teacher that impacted them in their life.

Not every show is meant to impart education and has to be entertainment driven as well.

I guess I get a little impatient and frustrated when people ask what 'Manic Depression' is about.

I'm probably a little more like my dad. But because of my mom, I never saw being a woman as being an impediment to being able to do something. She had her Ph.D. before I was born.

It's not imperative that I graduate in four years, and it's not imperative that I get all A's.

I think it's imperative to keep your focus on why you're in school. You're in school to get an education.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

I think sometimes in the art world theres an implication that you need an entry-level education to walk through the door of a gallery. But you dont. The learning experience actually happens once youre in the gallery.

Do your own homework. I can't overstate the importance of this.

Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all.