Quotes About Education

Educated mothers are 50 percent more likely to immunize their children than mothers with no schooling.

I worked as a housecleaner through college, but I never considered going through the motions of doing it full-time.

I never had the college experience, so I have raised my girls to be more work-oriented and motivated to be financially independent.

I think I just pick really smart and motivated people to work with - people who are probably going to do great things anyway - and I just teach them what I know, maybe teach them how to think a little clearer than they did before, and then off they go.

I was not a happy or popular or happy-with-myself kid, and I wasn't an especially motivated student, either.

I love and celebrate good teachers, and it's critical that we do more to identify them and keep them happy and motivated.

I like to think I know a lot, but I don't. I'm motivated to learn more.

Just having the hunger to continue to learn motivates me.

I used to teach at the Columbia journalism school, and I would tell my students that every book has to have a sentence that motivates it.

Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.

That's my whole motivation in life - to educate people to become better a citizen, better person, better son, and better father.

The whole reason why we have this kind of assembly line model of education that we inherited from the Prussians, is they were the first people - it's a very egalitarian motive - to say how do we educate everyone.

As seventh graders, my classmates and I would make rockets to see what made them fly and models of remote-controlled motor boats because Palanpur had heavy rainfall.

Education was the motor that allowed me to make my way up the ladder.

I did a deal with my parents to take a year out before university at the end of 1992 to try and forge a career in motor sport. I still haven't gone. I left school at 18 and that was it.

The promotion of self-esteem in our schools has been so successful that people feel free to spout off about all sorts of things — and see no reason why their opinions should not be taken as seriously as the views of people who actually know what they are talking about.

Articulation plays an important role in the dissemination of knowledge, as knowledge is conceived in the unconstrained vision.

large disparities in school performances among racial or ethnic groups (1) are unusual and suspicious, and (2) reflect differences in the way those groups are treated by the schools and/or the society. These

The futility of attempting to upgrade the teaching profession by paying higher salaries is obvious, so long as legal barriers keep out all those who refuse to take education courses. These courses are negative barriers, in the sense that they keep out the competent. It is Darwinism stood on its head, with the unfittest being most likely to survive as public school teachers. The

The world's first university chair in engineering was founded in Glasgow in 1840.2'x

The fervor for establishing public schools in Massachusetts found no counterpart in Virginia, where illiteracy was much higher and education was largely restricted to those wealthy enough to afford to have their own children educated at home by tutors. In Virginia, the printing press was deliberately restricted by the powers that be, to keep reading matter from the masses, while the aristocracy often had impressive libraries in their homes.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

As Will Rogers said, everybody is ignorant, but just about different things.

One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans – anything except reason.