Quotes About Education

I won't eat anything I can't spell or wouldn't tread in.

I had a great time as a teacher, but I was just treading water, as a lot of us do.

When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment - we read it aloud - and all of a sudden it became a treasure.

I treasure my meetings with individuals affected by autism - parents, children, teachers and friends. Their strength is inspiring. They deserve all possible opportunities for education, employment and integration.

In Estonia, our greatest national treasure is our egalitarian educational system.

I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.

It's racist to teach children to treat other children differently because of their skin color.

If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.

We have to convince the people of Bucharest, who are dog lovers, to treat dogs like they treat their children and not just let them roam the streets.

Excellent education and an excellent environment are two hallmarks of our state. How we treat our environment is connected to so many other opportunities in Maine.

We have been deformed by educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audience instead of actors in a drama, so we become adults who treat democracy as a spectator sport.

Children need teachers who have stars in their eyes themselves and who treat them with respect.

I always treat all the jobs I do as an acting class.

When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with latest gadgets. Things replace parental standards.

Hospitals are great places, and you can learn from them, but you don't necessarily need to go in anytime you get the sniffles. And maybe you shouldn't treat pregnancy as a disease.

My goal is to teach readers how to treat and respect themselves and each other in an entertaining way. I do that in all of my books.

I treated as few patients as I could as a medical student, and I never practiced medicine.

My father and mother treated us children as intellectual equals, thus greatly bolstering our self-confidence and our interest in ideas of all kinds.

Learning disabilities cannot be cured, but they can be treated successfully and children with LD can go on to live happy, successful lives.

I think 'Dead Poets' was probably my favorite, just to get started with the idea of doing a movie that people treated as more than a movie.

Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.

Our parents treated all three of us - two sisters and a brother - equally. When it came to education, or our future plans, there was no discrimination between us based on our gender.

We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.

I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect.