Quotes About Education

I remember I used to come up to my teacher crying because I couldn't read. She would say: 'You can do this. You just don't want to do this.

I always wanted to be a teacher. A bit of me still wants to be a teacher.

Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.

Whether it's on the streets of Philadelphia or New York or Chicago or Atlanta or in a classroom in Newtown, Connecticut, people want to be safe.

Different films have different places in people's lives. I don't get to see a lot of films, so I want to watch films I learn from.

Putin wants to stay in power, but not so that he can finally solve our most pressing problems: education, health care, poverty.

Staple a green card to their diploma - welcome to the United States of America! We want those people in our country.

Coming age is the age of knowledge. However rich, poor or powerful a country be, if they want to move ahead, only knowledge can lead them to that path.

Almost 4.25 lakh toilets were built in 2.62 schools nationwide in one year; this gives self-confidence that we can do what we want.

I think classes can be the most fun. And if you want to make it a social thing and you want to go with friends, then that's the way to do it.

In the first year of a child's life we teach them to walk and talk. And then for the rest of their lives we want them to sit down and be quiet.

What I said was: We want everybody to learn English because we don't want - I didn't use the word 'Spanish.'

Very often kids don't ask questions in class because they don't want to be seen asking a question.

I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a job, but Auntie Beryl said I should go to Oxford.

I wanted to see who this Yeats person was, and I said to my mother, 'I want a book by this person.' And she bought it for me, and a lot of it was over my head, but I had it.

If all the students who slept through lectures were laid end to end, they'd all be a lot more comfortable. If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.

You [Jill Stein] want to do something about student debt. And that affects conservative and liberal students. That's going to be a majoritarian position.

I have a deep respect for musicians, and I feel like I would want to be so prepared and so well-educated and deep in the process before I ever release anything.

The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

It came time to go to college. My dad said, go wherever you want. Take whatever you want. He just really believed in getting out and being exposed to different things.

I think there could be a very large number who are creationists by default. Those are the people I want to reach.

Anybody who is afraid of reading a page of text is not the reader that I want.

God created war so that Americans would learn geography.