Quotes About Education

Smart financial planning - such as budgeting, saving for emergencies, and preparing for retirement - can help households enjoy better lives while weathering financial shocks. Financial education can play a key role in getting to these outcomes.

Give your kid some credit for being smart - just because they read about something doesn't mean they will do it.

It's a funny thing about being raised Catholic and then going to Catholic schools with nuns - the cliche about the mean nun was not what I had at all. They were very, very smart, devoted individuals.

It's very hard for a man to ask questions about sex. The smart ones do.

I mean, I think a healthy country is a country where people are healthy physically, and a smart country is a country where people are educated.

You learn how to be book smart in school, but you better not forget that you also need to be street smart.

I was going to be valedictorian in elementary school, but I got into too many fights, and they made me salutatorian. I was smart back in the day. Now I'm just an idiot.

I wasn't a smart kid and I still don't think I'm too smart when it comes to book smart, but I was very good with what I knew and with my craft and I think that was my calling in life. But even today I never went to college.

The debate that I'm interested in having is with seriously smart people about how we design institutions in the 21st century that will genuinely address problems of poverty and educational underachievement.

As more and more minority groups fill our nation's classrooms, what can we do to even the separate-but-forever-unequal playing field? Now that's a question many very smart people have spent decades trying to answer.

In the course of my research, I've read a lot of incredibly bad books - mostly by academics. I'm puzzled as to just why their writing is so terrible. These are smart people, after all.

I want to literally make people smarter by jamming things in their brains.

You play more games, you get more maturity, and you get smarter.

I want to make other people around me smarter and more powerful.

Reading is important because it makes you smarter and lets you find out about things you're curious about.

I grew up in a different era. People were definitely afraid of HIV back then, but education also helped change the way we thought about the disease. That education helped my generation make smarter choices about the way we protected ourselves.

Both my parents were far smarter than the opportunities they had.

If you're smarter than me, you shouldn't be reading my books.

You don't get smarter by not learning stuff.

Kids today are smarter than we ever were. And they've got computers, too, which is awesome. They're scary to me.

My name is George Smoot III, and I am smarter than a fifth-grader.

Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.

Many African people are smarter than me - kids who could have been better. I have no claim for genius.

You're smarter than TV. So what?