Quotes About Education

When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade boys because I felt that was an important time for them. I had gone astray at that point in my life and really wanted to help keep them from making the same mistake I had made.

The more mistakes you make, the more you learn.

Making mistakes is how we learn.

I've made every mistake - but mistakes are how you learn.

I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that.

Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.

The best way to learn is getting out there, getting reps, and making mistakes.

I got a way to get through to kids. I try to take that and use that to my advantage. If we work on the kids right now, I'm telling you, they'll be making less mistakes, the jails will be gettin' less full. It's all about what we do with the kids.

I love mistakes because it's the only way you learn.

Learn from my mistakes and you don't have to make them yourself.

You learn from mistakes.

You make mistakes and you learn from them.

You always learn something from mistakes.

I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about genetic information and what you can and cannot learn.

Football players are misunderstood. They aren't the dumb jocks people think they are.

Make sure there are lots of Harvard M.B.A.s working for MIT Ph.D.s in the future.

I went to Hebrew school but opted out of a bar mitzvah.

All of our schools should be good enough to attract a healthy racial mix, which, I believe, leads to the most effective learning for everybody.

What I learned about the mob wasn't through lectures at the academy.

A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility.

I'm a beneficiary of an extraordinary education, and I believe that no matter where you live, the access to education is key to social mobility.

School was always a major player in my personal journey. It allowed me to open up to the world, and also social mobility. It allowed me to enrich myself, to read, learn and understand.

There are lots of great educationalists out there who really care about social mobility.

I love to read. I was in AP English in high school, and we were assigned books every few months. 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' are two of my favorite ones.