Quotes About Education

I remember so many times taking classes and feeling completely discouraged because I felt like I wasn't getting it and I couldn't understand. I kept working at it and I kept going back to class, and I wouldn't let myself get intimidated or get scared away, and it really does pay off.

Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there.

I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.

If you introduce kids to fishing, they become good citizens.

A lot of illustrators have one central character and then they develop it, and all their books are based around it. But that was not my wish. I wanted to introduce children to the whole creative side of many aspects of life.

I've long wanted to introduce children to the wonder of the arts.

I got introduced to Shakespeare at four years old, and I fell in love with the language.

My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.

I blame my parents for never introducing me to good music.

Hebrew School was my first introduction to real feminism. I remember that much more than I remember any kind of actual religious teaching.

All of my football, even my introduction, even my coaches, most of them came from Europe, particularly England. So pretty much my whole footballing education and introduction was through English football.

I've tried to educate myself in the world and what's beautiful and what has meaning and is lasting. Then I just follow my intuition and see how it fits.

I think of how much I've learned from doing television, and it is so invaluable.

The Bill Cosby I know has been great to me and great for a lot of people. What he's done for comedy and television has been legendary and history-making. What he's done for the black community and education has been invaluable. That's the Bill Cosby I know.

Just to be in the locker room with the NHL players, go out to dinner with them, hang out with them. I feel like it was an invaluable experience and kind of like going to Harvard law school, I guess, because that's the best education you could get being around guys like that.

I'm on a crusade to get movie directors to get their science right because, more often than they believe, the science is more extraordinary than anything they can invent.

Did I invent anything? I don't think so, not really. But if I've helped make history fun... then my work here is done.

I expect there will be more schools of any kind that haven't even been invented yet.

In England, there's no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.

Afternoon classes - that evil invention!

I thought I wanted to be an inventor but then discovered you couldn't study inventing!

As a society, we can and should invest more money in education.

When parents are confident that their children will live, they have fewer of them. They invest more in each child's food, health and education.

We need to invest in people's lives so that they can do the jobs of the 21st century.