Quotes About Education

My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.

You come home to find your 17-year-old daughter engrossed in a book. Which would delight you more - if it were 'Twilight' or 'Middlemarch?'

The most important person to thank is...my mother. She gave me four golden rules to live by: be a proud black man, take care of your family, make education a priority, and try to do the right thing.

My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.

I question whether we can afford to teach mother macramé when Johnny still can't read.

Back-to-School Chats, Advice from Mothers to Their Daughters.

When Christianity is received, it stimulates the faculties, and calls forth new ideas, new motives and new sentiments. It has been the mother of all modern education

I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.

My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics.

My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.

My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.

My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.

Stone Mountain, Georgia, still had Ku Klux Klan marches, and I had a wild and courageous mother who'd put us in the car to watch them. She wanted us to know those things existed.

My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.

Experiment is the mother of knowledge.

When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.

The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.

My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university.

Children with healthy mothers are much more likely to survive childhood, attend school and live healthy, productive lives.

My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary.

Like my mother before me, I have always been a good speller.

Being sent away to school was no different from my biological mother giving me away.

Mother lode of learning.