Quotes About Education

Anyone who thinks you can pay $3, 100 to the federal government and thinks you can get that money back completely in services - like I said - he may go to M-I-T but he is an N-U-T.

I don't come from a lot of money and wasn't going to get an academic scholarship, so the only way to afford an education was to allow the military to supplement it.

You can spend a lot of money on education, but if you don't spend it wisely, on improving the quality of instruction, you won't get higher student outcomes.

My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't have a career as such he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

If life ever ceased to be an educational experience. I probably wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

In business, I loved cars. I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning. Only in America can you decide to get a good education and pursue what you like.

I'm seeing too many kind of socially awkward kids that get through schools and then they can't hold a job because they haven't learned the discipline of get up in the morning.

Whoever had decided that school should start so early in the morning and last all day long needed to be hunted down and forced to watch hours of educational televison without the aid of caffine.

Don't stifle your career by limiting you knowledge.

Learn something today in order to make tomorrow a better today.

The school-boy doesnt force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning.

I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing.

I had one class in the morning, the mysteriously named "Further Maths". It was two hours long and so deeply frightening that I think I went into a trance.

Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book.

If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

My mother…was perfectly horrified when I began shooting and tried to keep me in school, but I would run away and go quail shooting in the woods or trim my dresses with wreaths of wildflowers.

The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.

A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.