Quotes About Education

My mom says I either have to go to college or go into the military.

I'm more eager to have kids than I am to go back to college. I want to be a mom really badly.

Growing up, my mom and dad relentlessly emphasized hard work and a good education as key to a better future.

I went to Brooklyn College as an education major. It was a big deal in the family, but really, I was living for Mom and Dad.

My mom and dad, although they may not have had a lot of formal education, they were two of the most brilliant people that I know.

My mom and dad always taught acting, so instead of getting me babysitters, they would just bring me to class.

My mom and dad decided to homeschool us - I'm one of eight - because they really wanted us to be outside and learn some other fundamentals instead of it being school all day in a classroom.

I chose to go down a very dark place, and I can't change that, but those moments have served as an education for me.

You have to teach children about money intentionally - create teachable moments.

This journey is not over. Our education initiatives have so much momentum, and we're committed to sharing even more stories from the Arctic when we return.

The best sex education for kids is when Daddy pats Mommy on the fanny when he comes home from work.

Mommy and Daddy both had jobs when I was a kid, so, like a lot of people my age, TV became Mommy and books became Daddy.

Playing for the Kansas City Monarchs was like my school, my learning, my world. It was my whole life.

Acceptance at home is fundamental, yes, but frankly, it's just not enough. Trans youth, like most young people, spend the majority of their time at school. If you spent Monday to Friday from 8 to 3 being told that you weren't okay, that you were wrong, how are you meant to think otherwise?

Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights.

I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him. The first time I listened to jazz, he gave me a Thelonious Monk record. It was so different from anything I had ever heard. It took me a while to understand it, and I liked that. I liked the fact that it wasn't immediately palatable.

Jazz is very much a part of my life. I work with the Thelonious Monk Institute and do the artwork for their program every year.

My own schooldays convince me that I would not send a child of mine to be educated by a grinning monk any more than I would send him to a mullah in Iran.

In third or fourth grade, I loved to sign stories and monologues.

I want to create a kind of new monster language for kids to play with, pick up, and incorporate into their own vocabularies.

If you were born white, you automatically have a monstrous advantage educationally, economically, culturally, and within the society.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you're focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.