Quotes About Education

College = A place where you spend a ton of money for a piece of paper that says you're qualified.

Wisdom is the byproduct of lifelong experience and education.

Between video games and texting, how do our youth find the time to know everything?

Lies are taught by force, truth is taught by choice.

For an educated person, intelligence is important but character is more important.

Always try to associate with people from whom you can learn something. All the knowledge that you want is in the world, and all you have to do is go and seek it.

People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don't want to learn it themselves.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know.

There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet.

All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?

In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.

The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible

When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.

One thing you might want to learn before you attend the world's largest ukulele lesson is how to say ukulele.

Young people, I want to beg of you always keep your eyes open to what Mother Nature has to teach you. By so doing you will learn many valuable things every day of your life.

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.

You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.

Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

I teach high school math. I sell a product to a market that doesn't want it, but is forced by law to buy it.

Kids want to saute, to cut the pizza, to see how the ingredients come together. If you let them do the fun stuff, they'll develop skills and interests that will stay with them forever.

I'm constantly trying to make myself better, to learn more. I didn't finish college, so I feel like I'm always having to prove myself. I don't want to feel like the smallest person in the room.

Teacher, there are things that I don't want to learn.

You have a chance of learning -- if you want to and youre not arrogant.