Quotes About Education

Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!

My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.

My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance.

My mom. She really encouraged me. That's the trouble with education: Unless you have a really supportive parent, you get left behind.

I told my mom I would graduate. I owe that much to her and myself.

Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.

My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.

My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents.

When I was in college, there were a couple years there where I was just not sure what to do, and it was actually my mom who suggested I take some journalism classes.

All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system.

My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an electrical engineer, and my mom is in microbiology.

Mom is always saying I'm a smart kid, but that I just don't apply myself.

My mom just told me the lines, because I didn't know how to read yet. I copied them and that's what I did.

I'm much more of a kid now than I was when I was a kid. I was the kind of kid who was valedictorian, a straight-A student. My mom used to say, "Please stop studying and get outside."

My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn't go to university.

I was just your average hockey mom, and signed up for the PTA because I wanted to make my kids' public education better.

My mom is a public school teacher and works with third grade students.

The Chinese mom is not the helicopter mom. I would never do their homework for them. It's all about: Take responsibility, don't blame others. Be self-reliant. Never blame the teacher.

When I was child, I never spoke. Teacher used to write remarks on my note book. My mom sent me to a trainer. I started talking, and it gave me confidence.

Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.

I grew up watching my mom in the kitchen, that's how I know anything about cooking. I've always wanted to go to a culinary class actually.

Adjusted for inflation, somebody going to college today to a state university, is paying about 300 percent of what her mom or dad did just 30 years ago.

I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.

Homeschooling is not a race ... You will not get behind, nor do you have to live with guilt that you feel the need to catch up.