Quotes About Education

I didn't go to university or get a degree, but I hired somebody as a mentor - and that I considered my university education.

Most of my job and most of what I do is to mentor people. There are a lot of people I work with that I don't have investments in.

I always jump at the chance to mentor kids when it comes to music.

To have a drama teacher as a mentor was just like, 'Oh, what a gift.'

I have always had someone in my life that I consider my reading mentor because I come from a family where reading was not emphasized or even approved of.

I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.

One of my mentors schooled me on branding before it was a cliche term in the game.

Are any of us self-taught? It just means I didn't go to school for it. But you do have teachers. You have mentors.

I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.

I don't remember going to school with anyone who had a Mercedes dealership.

Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.

I always wanted to write for children. When I was growing up, we were really poor. My mother had left, and it was all a mess. So I lived in my head a lot, and I would get lots of books for Christmas - from librarians and teachers - and they just fed my imagination.

You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.

I was a Science student and it is often believed that all those who study Science are only good in academics, so many students sent me messages saying how I have become an inspiration for them.

My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

I met Arthur Ashe a few times. I know how important education was to him.

I went to a basic school, which had children from all corners of the world, and met my best friend and had to learn Greek because she didn't speak English.

I've had all the lessons I could get. I've learned from everybody I've ever met.

I always had becoming a meteorologist as my goal from the second I decided, while I was in school, just to study meteorology.

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.

We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.

There is no book-learning culture in Cambodia. People do not read. The children do not read in school. Educators must come up with a policy that meets the great need for knowledge: using modern audiovisual methods that the young can connect with.