Quotes About Education

It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils.

We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know.

I've watched Jamie Oliver 's Food Revolution, he wants better school lunches for children in the US and UK. In NZ, we want Kiwi kids to have school lunches!

And for those of you that dropped out of high school, remember the famous phrase: 'Do you want fries with that?'

Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know.

Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.

We need to focus on the kind of human beings we want to have and the kind of society in which we want to live.

School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.

Once you get your education it's going to open up so many doors for you. And the sky's the limit. So that's what I want to deliver to students.

In teaching, you do not want to COVER things, you want to UNCOVER them. The best way to get good ideas is to have lots of ideas.

The #1 business opportunity for those who want to create new wealth is educating consumers about products and services that will improve their lives.

If you want to be happy in life, consider yourself a student. Every day of your life, think: how can I improve?

I have a simple algorithm, which is, wherever you see paid researchers instead of grad students, that's not where you want to be doing research.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

I only went to the third grade because my father only went to the fourth and I didn't want to pass him.

Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having.

I'm a doctor of cowshit, pigshit, and chickenshit.....when you doctors figure out what you want, you'll find me out in the barn shoveling my thesis.

My wish is that we design the future of learning. We don't want to be spare parts for a great human computer.

Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty.

I know that many students take personal responsibility for their education and succeed as a result. I want them to know they are not alone - that Nevada's system can and will support them.

I like geography. I could tell you the capital of any country you want.

Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.

I am mentally preparing myself for the five-year-old mind. I want to come down to their physical limitations and up to their sense of wonder and awe.

Many people want to send their children to faith schools because they get good exam results, but they're not foolish enough to believe that it's because of faith that they get good exam results.