Quotes About Education

It is possible to be well-educated and still not understand life. 

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him" (Proverbs 22:15).

Give your children big truths they will grow into rather than light explanations they will grow out of.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.

A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis.

I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.

Research is starting to show that a child should be engaged at least 20 hours a week. I do not think it matters which program you choose as long as it keeps the child actively engaged with the therapist, teacher, or parent for at least 20 hours a week.

I owe everything to Spain - that's where I learned to write, to read, and to play football.

College wasn't for us. We just didn't have the attention span.

Today's children have very short attention spans because they are being reared on dreadful television programmes which are flickering away in the corner.

I had a memory span about as long as the lines in a school play.

People who lived in the 1920s and '30s and '40s were not so different from us. In some ways, they were probably better citizens than we are. They had longer attention spans, for example. Educated people tended to read a bit more than we did.

I have a formal education, but there's a whole lot you don't learn in school. And you only have so much time to figure it out. No matter how cerebral, celestial, how ethnic, there's a span of time here.

I don't speak fluent Spanish. I took it in college.

I learned French before I learned Spanish.

I failed world geography, civics, Spanish and English. And when you fail Spanish and English, they do not consider you bilingual. They may call you bi-ignorant because you can't speak any language.

I don't speak Spanish. I've done Spanish 1 and 2 classes. My grandma asked me when I was young if I wanted to learn Spanish, and I guess I was young. I should have, because it would have helped me a lot.

I took Latin and Spanish. I can speak a very small amount of Spanish, but Latin has sort of gone away! Unless I was joining the Catholic Church, there would be no need to learn Latin.

My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don't speak it that much anymore because I had dyslexia, and in school they work with you only in English. But I'm proud to be Latina, and most people don't know I am.

I think it's important if you're American to have a second language, and Spanish is the language to have.

One of the biggest problems is - you know, I've got some Hispanic friends - is that a lot of those folks that don't know English, is primarily because they don't even know Spanish. They don't even know their own language.

I speak some French, Spanish, a little German and Gaelic.

I'm trying to work on my Spanish.

I'm terrible at languages. I'm trying to learn Spanish. I tried to learn French as a kid.