Quotes About Education

One thing that is clear to me: as a society, we put way too much emphasis on a slip of paper - that college diploma.

Children's literature - the product of adult guesswork - often fails to account for its audience's slippery grasp on the world.

Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and simply as possible.

I was very slow in maths, geometry I actually enjoyed.

School, for me, was a really, genuinely hard thing. It was hard because l am an artist. You can't send an artist to a place where we learn at a mad slow pace sitting in a class.

'Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.'

I've teamed up with one of the headmasters at Eton College, and we're spearheading a kind of 'slow education movement in Britain'. It's based on this idea of moving away from the fast-food approach to learning and going to something deeper, more woolly, harder to measure.

I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible.

We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly.

There is - I will just say that there was a disastrous day where I discovered really what radioactivity is and that just because you don't see it doesn't mean that it's not everywhere, so - Yeah. I was a slow learner for sure.

After 'Big Daddy,' it was really slow. We weren't booking a lot, and we did a little bit here and there, but, you know, we basically went back to school, did what normal kids do.

Let me do five of those, and then some slower ones for those kids that can't understand what I'm sayin.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

It's my belief that you can take everyone down a logical path if you take them slowly enough, and the trouble is that mathematical brains can get scrambled a little bit on the way. You get a bad teacher, it messes you up for the rest of the journey.

Classical dance forms and music are slowly going away. It is very important to impart these to children.

Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.

I want to buy more property, start a couple of small businesses, and if my cousin wants to go to college, I want to put him through with ease.

I'm incredibly passionate about business, about small businesses, and about kids being given the right skills so they are successful.

We've had this program for a number of years now, called 10,000 Small Businesses, where Goldman Sachs has convened a group of partners to basically give business education to small business owners.

The school system has become a part of this huge government machine, governed by people who aren't close to the situation. That's why I'm a Republican. I believe in small government.

The very first proper play I did was 'Godspell,' and I played the guitar for it, and I had a small part in a high school play. And before that, in sixth grade, I wrote a musical about Noah's ark.

Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.

I come from the small town of Sialkot in Pakistan. During pre-Partition, this town had the highest literacy rate among women.

I was raised in a small town in Indiana and educated at Ball State University.