Quotes About Education

I have a humble background. My dad was a coal miner. My mum worked a receptionist. I was one of the first people in my family to go to university.

Even getting a college degree does not guarantee a minimal knowledge of U.S. history.

When I turned 15, I left school having failed to make the minimum grade. With little direction I enlisted at the local culinary school. Here the academic demands were less rigorous.

I believe that it is girls' human rights to go to school to be educated, minimum, until they are 18.

Afghanistan has the capacity to become an industrialized country because of its mining and agriculture sectors. We can also create jobs for educated men and women by investing in information technology.

I was very happy being education minister and deputy to John Cain.

My father was a minister, and my mother was a music teacher.

I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.

Learning is not limited to the classroom, and Minnesota shouldn't limit its education resources there, either.

I went to high school in Minnesota.

Sometimes it feels as if I major in activism and minor in university.

My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be there, and you can get some of the same great competition in college that you do in the low minor leagues.

At first, I took theater courses on the side. Then, theater became my minor; then it was my major.

I would really love to go back to college, if there's any way I could to do it, and maybe minor in business.

The Internet has done so much for so many. It allows women and minorities to have access to education, training, and information that sometimes isn't available to them for whatever reason.

Every kid, every minority kid can be so successful if they focus on their education.

There are 58 million people with some kind of disability in America, so it's the largest minority, really, in America, and it lags behind in education and economics and jobs, so outside of 'CSI' and outside of my music, I serve on a couple of boards, and I'm trying to be a part of the movement that changes this.

Americans should understand that 50%, or something like, of the kids in inner-city schools, often poor and often minority, don't graduate. And the ones that do don't necessarily have the skills to get a job. That is the biggest disgrace in this country.

Increasing postsecondary enrollment and success, particularly among first-generation, low-income, and minority students, is good for students and our state's economy.

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

I loved every minute of my three years majoring in classics at Berkeley.

In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.

Every minute you invest in kids you get back four times over.

Our children learn reading, writing, math, science, and other subjects in school that can help them earn a living. But ver few school programs teach young people how to live - how to deal with anger, how reconcile conflicts, how to breathe, smile, and transform internal formations. There needs to be a revolution in education