Quotes About Education

We were constantly traveling between Malaysia and Singapore, which is connected by a bridge at the southernmost end of Malaysia. In fact, when I was a child, I had to go between countries twice a day to go to school, because I was living in Malaysia at the time but attending primary school in Singapore.

I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.

I attended sports school in Bulgaria just like my parents. I attended class twice a day and trained twice a day.

I was lucky enough to have a mother who took me to the library - the public library - twice a week, Wednesdays and Saturdays. And also bought me books. And also read aloud to me.

Only recently - about five minutes ago, relative to the long-running human comedy - have parents been driving themselves to distraction by taking too seriously the idea that 'as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.'

If a child wants to read 'Twilight' over Middlemarch, they should be encouraged - the important thing is to get them reading in the first place.

Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.

Once you establish a foundation of knowing what the greatest recording artists of all time were Wouldn't you want your kids to know this stuff?

I've always traveled with the films because I want the audience to be my teacher so that I can learn for the next one.

People love learning new things and you need to understand they want to learn it as easy as possible.

He's just another man who wants to teach me something.

Nobody wants to pay higher taxes. But do you want your kids to get a good education? You have to pay for that. Do you want Medicare for senior citizens? I do. We have to pay for it.

Every time I sat in a chemistry lesson I thought, what am I doing this for? I don't ever want to be in a job that involves a Bunsen burner.'

I had gone to Oxford to read music. I had done music all my life, but when I got to college I didn't want to do it anymore.

Books are educational; so you can buy as many as you want." Sophie Kinsella, shopping at the Limelight Marketplace

Albuquerque is my home. I want my kids and all of our children to be able to go to any public or charter school and receive an excellent education.

We teach teens what we think they ought to know, and we never tell them what they want to know.

People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching.

In spite of what Draco is like, I really like school, and I miss it a lot when I'm filming. I've a fair idea what I want to do for my GCSEs, I will definitely be doing music.

Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is pain. I don't want you to go through that. So what I'm trying to do is save you decades of time by bringing you the best.

The greatest joy is my lifestyle, where me and my husband and our kids who go to internet school so they have the freedom to travel with me are able to do what we want, when we want, where we want.

At some point in their life, everyone thinks they should go to law school. You may in fact think you want to go to law school now.

Every young person is going to be inspired to be a maker from now on. It's like how everyone used to want to be a musician, an actor, an athlete -- but a maker is what people are going to want to be.

It's my hope to inspire kids around the world to want to be tech stars in stem subjects.