Quotes About Education

Industry and institutes need to build smarter linkages.

If you're going to spend your time, spend your time getting smarter.

We, as adults, are the gatekeepers, and we have to check our own fears at the door because we want our children to be smarter than we are. We want them to be more fully human than we are.

We really are based on this idea that teachers have all this pent-up classroom expertise and that if we could just empower them to come up with micro-solutions, they're going to come up with smarter ideas than anybody would at the top.

Kids are smarter than you realize.

I like making players better and smarter.

All I care about is getting smarter and better.

I know I'm not smarter than a 10-year-old.

I get smarter when I read seeing big words.

I knew that I wasn't the smartest kid in school, but I knew that I had a way to get out if I did the right things in sports.

Just understanding that if you're not growing up, you're just moving backwards, and I'm a person that I always want to grow and learn and not be the smartest person in the room, because when you're not the smartest person in the room, you're always learning things.

I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia.

In 1940 my mum took a job as under-matron at her old school, which had been evacuated from Eastbourne to Windermere; I got a bursary and spent eight years as a boarder. It was a smashing education; I regret being at a single-sex school, but I had a brother, so knew what guys were.

My grandmother had a Ph.D in library science, so I grew up in a library, and I would appreciate those books and the smell of them and how they'd have these series, and it was cool to me. I always felt like, if I had an opportunity, I'd create an album that felt like a series.

Girls are almost always socialized to be perfect: 'Smile, do well in school, don't take too many risks.'

I love anything to do with kids, anything to better our youth and put a smile on anybody's face is really what I do it for.

I really love taking a girl who has no idea how to wear makeup and teach her everything, and show her the difference at the end. The smile on their face is just amazing. It's like they won a million dollars.

Gary Smith, when I came to America, taught me a great deal about racing.

I was a general business major, which meant that in any business school and particularly at Smith School, which is a very good school, you do a lot of team projects. Well I was the guy who gave the presentations for the team projects.

I love the Smithsonian. I'm a real dork for that kind of stuff.

Whatever I am today is mostly because of my training at FTII. It taught me to be disciplined as an actor. People accuse us of being lazy and presume that we smoke up and laze about in the campus, which is not true at all. FTII courses are hard work.

Anti-smoking education should focus on the young as well as adults, emphasizing that 'It's not cool to smoke, because there's nothing cool about cancer.'

I think the reason kids get into drugs and smoking is they don't have anything to do.

Just as we ban smoking and drinking for under 16, because we want to shield young people from their harmful effects, we should do the same for smartphones.