Quotes About Education

The middle class is a group defined by more than just money: it also leans on credentials, education, aspirations, assets, and, of course, household income.

I must try desperately to absorb all information I can about the Middle East. I want to excel. I want to speak articulately about the politics of the Middle East and its religion.

I got my initiation into the Middle East in 1969 when I went there to teach at the American University in Cairo for two years.

I feel like I'd be a really good teacher. I would go for middle school... those high schoolers would be difficult to deal with.

There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... in middle school because they think it makes them attractive.

I didn't graduate eighth grade. I could have, but I got into too many fights in middle school.

You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.

In middle school, I had the best math teacher I've ever had, and he was deaf... and I felt inspired by him. I knew from then on that I wanted to be a math teacher.

I've coached grassroots for eight years, I coached middle school, and I coached high school.

English was always my favorite subject in middle school and high school.

You shouldn't be learning how to code when you're middle-aged. You should be learning how to code when you're a kid.

I come from a middle-class family, where you grow up thinking about government service. But when I went to Harvard, I saw that entrepreneurs and business leaders were just like me. It gave me a feeling that I could also do such things.

I came from a very middle-class family and had to take out loans to go to college. I was really shocked when I arrived at school at the difference between those who had money and those who didn't.

I was born in the Midwest, where 'salad' was cherry Jell-O with bananas in it. Now children are more aware of healthy foods.

My dad's an English teacher and my mum's a midwife. Then my mum's side of the family are all crazy creative.

Without books, we might just melt into the airwaves and be just another set of blips.

There's huge access to information. If you need to learn something, you can go on the Internet and learn very quickly. You can reach across miles and miles to find companies that can assist you.

I have a lot of kids in my district who haven't been to the beach, much less Washington, D.C., and that's 20 miles away.

My son going to college is a big milestone.

I went into the military because I didn't get a scholarship, a basketball scholarship I thought that I would get.

In our post-9/11 world, our Nation's military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy.

I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me.

I got kicked out of all Gwinnett schools 'cause I got in a fight, and I had to go to military school.

We need social and emotional learning in our schools. I think we also need to get good food in the schools. We can't be feeding our kids Pop-Tarts and chocolate milk.