Quotes About Education

For years I felt that I wasn't ready to take on slavery. It's a huge topic, and I didn't want to mess it up.

You don't have to forego education to do anything. Even if you want to go to the NBA, you should read.

There's the people who have one of these cell phones in their pockets and don't have a clue how it's made. But I really want to understand.

I always make the point that teachers are people too, and that they don't just want to be in front of kids all day and have children be their only feedback loop.

I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do.

I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene

CalArts was incredible for me. It's a school that I rave about and constantly want to give back to.

There are a lot of latchkey kids. I don't want to be sitting there when a guy blurts something out over the TV and have my daughters ask me what those words mean.

You can make children believe whatever you want, and the children of today are the soldiers and mothers of tomorrow.

If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.

I was a very bad student. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want to go farther in school. I hated school and was always the bad one; I was always insulting the teachers.

What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.

Sometimes I want to watch movies both to see what to do and what not to do also.

Honestly, I don't know if I'd want to be an educator. I find teachers to have more responsibility, in a way, than being a parent. You're molding hundreds of minds every year.

... anybody with the brains and energy to become a teacher ought to want to become something better.

If you're a person who just wants to be in the world and doesn't want any knowledge, then I don't know what you are doing with this tape. Turn it off immediately.

A real liberated teacher never asks for a commitment from a student. That's absurd, a person wants to be there and they want to learn everything they can.

An unfortunate side effect of education among the masses is lack of respect.

The only death I fear is dying ignorant.

Our education system no longer teaches empathy,' Sam said. 'Now, if everybody in college had to take a minor in Literature, the world would be a better place.

When thugs were in power, educated people were the first to feel their fists. It was so pathetic, really, how so much violence came from someone feeling small.

Tattersail smiled. "The only death I fear is dying ignorant. No, is my answer.

Never mind the truth. The past is what I say it is. That is the freedom of teaching the ignorant

The most important task of teaching is to teach what it means to know.