Quotes About Education

You start learning English in fifth grade. I was 12. But even before then I was listening to American music. My neighbor was a really big hip-hop fan, so he taught me everything around hip-hop.

Jack Kennedy was one year older than I was, and we attended the same neighborhood school.

There should be marches in every neighborhood every day telling the people about the negativity of drugs and how the drugs help us to behave negatively.

Those who are able to afford to live in a neighborhood with 'good schools' will do so, knowing that a good education is the key to good opportunity for their children.

My five-year-old, before the quarantine, joined a chess class in our neighborhood in Brooklyn, and my husband was learning to play so that they could play against each other.

We need to take responsibility and educate people. That's why black folks don't like me. I always say it's our responsibility to make safe neighborhoods. It's our job to get them cleaned up.

I have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw fit to terminate both courses before they were finished.

My parents were not at all involved in science. In fact, neither of them went to college.

But, neither of these educational scenarios worked for us, so when we started a family, we wanted a different school for our children. And the other founders felt the same way.

I think my parents did want me to go to university just in case, but neither my mum or dad went to uni, so they couldn't talk.

When I was at school, I loved maths and read lots of books and was horrified at the idea of having a boyfriend... I was probably a nerd, but then, it was a negative term.

I grew up in Miami, which is a very 'cool' city, but I was a science nerd.

I loved school as a kid. I was a bit of a nerd.

I was home schooled in high school but was definitely the nerd in middle school.

My deep dark secret is that I was a nerd in school. I liked the theater. I liked to study. I wasn't very good at sports.

I'm pretty much self-taught - I never went to any courses. If I want to learn about, say, the frontal lobe, I'll buy 40 books and absorb them in a couple of weeks. I'm a nerd like that.

I definitely identify as a nerd - love being in a classroom.

I didn't have very many friends growing up. I was very much a nerd. I read comic books, and I wanted to do well in school.

In college, I was in the debating society - this total nerd.

We have to change the way people look at scientists. Today, they are the nerds, the geeks. Instead, we want some of the cool kids to say, 'Hey, this is all right.'

One of my secret nerdy things is that I love education.

I always enjoyed school, and I enjoyed being focused on learning - and I know that sounds nerdy, but there were so many wonderful elements of going to school with just girls. I wouldn't brush my hair.

I was quite nerdy at school. I skipped a year and won a scholarship in chemistry.

Stay in school and band, kids! It had its nerdy moments, and I always felt like I wanted to do something more with it.