Quotes About Education

I cheat my boys every chance I get, I want to make 'em sharp.

I want to take piano lessons, I want to study at university, I want to travel, I want to do other parts, make another movie.

If you love to read, you can learn anything you really want to know.

The mind resorts to reason for want of training.

I'm not trying to amass people in the streets. I just want them to be more aware.

The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.

I want us to invest in you.

Those kids aren't dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don't get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.

While I hear from readers all the time that they love learning new things, I never want to do an "info-dump." Boring! I try to include enticing details and skip all the rest.

A lot of people dont understand how cargo coming into our ports matters, not just to Southern California but to every single congressional district. I want to educate on that issue.

I find people who want to help other people to be the most interesting. I come from a family of teachers, and my friends are teachers, often times in very difficult school situations.

They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score.

You go to school to figure out who you want to be and how you can do it, and [maybe] I should have, because the films would probably be technically better.

We are fortunate to have some of the greatest and best teachers in the world, but we want to make sure that those few that try to sneak through the system are caught in advance.

I was shy, but I stood up in front of the class and I gave my report.I was reporting on books that I didn't want to read. I was inventing books that I didn't want to read.

Kids should read whatever they want to read. So I'm hoping that just like 15-year-olds read "Summer Sisters," I'm hoping that they'll read this.

Being a working mom, you want to make a difference in our schools, which is making a difference in our children and ultimately it's making a difference in our community.

It's priceless what you learn when you actually do. It's like going to film school times eleven. The best education is effectively to be functioning in the occupation that you want to take on.

I think 'The Giver' is such a moral book, so filled with important truths, that I couldn't believe anyone would want to suppress it, to keep it from kids.

Over 90 percent of parents in Puerto Rico want their children to be totally fluent in English.

Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.

Let us secure not such books as people want, but books just above their wants, and they will reach up to take what is put out for them.

I think what we've done is given children a lot of things that they didn't ask for instead of what they do want.

Why is it suddenly uncool to spell? That's all I want to know.