Quotes About Education

Teachers have such hard jobs and they don't get paid well. And in order to be a teacher you need a lot of education, so people aren't teachers for any other reason than they want to be, and they want to help educate the next generation of people.

Educating the American people on how our government works is the first step towards securing our future liberties for the next generation.

Some kids grasp a subject faster and race ahead to the next level, while others continue to struggle with the first. The great thing we've seen is that if you let a student take his time to master a concept, he will probably race ahead on the next one.

No man is truly educated unless he knows where he came from, why he is here, and where he can expect to go in the next life.

My next step must be to go to drama school. Well, I get into drama school, so I did that.

I wanted to get that Division I scholarship and play ball and go to school for free, and I was always about getting to that next step... I was always ahead of myself in some way, shape or form, and trying to envision how to get further along and closer to fulfilling that dream of being free and having creative agency, so to speak.

If you play college sports, it's not like you have to - the next step in your career is another sport. You don't have to go into another sport. If you play college sports, you obviously graduated with a degree.

It's nice to work with your own alma mater.

I'm very lucky I went to a nice school and I live in a very lovely part of London.

I wouldn't change my childhood for anything. The Dutch are really nice people. The schools were great.

The nice thing about genetics is, I can see my kids doing what I used to do, which is inhaling books like breathing.

Only a niche section of parents allow their children to take up courses on film and television.

I can't talk about the education of black children if I ignored two of my nieces who were a couple of grade levels behind. I believe that charity begins at home, and I take seriously the role of a godfather to fill the gap when the parents aren't doing their job.

My grandma was raised in Ghana, and she went back there to work, so she could earn money for my mum's education in Nigeria. It's where it all began, and that dedication to education is the only reason I'm here.

A good night in is a series of documentaries.

College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.

Our schools should be sanctuaries of learning, not nightmares of cruel and racist behavior.

I always wanted to write, ever since I was a kid. I started writing at the age of 11. All I wanted to do was finish my education and have my nights free for writing.

I used to spend my nights oversewing dresses for a local dressmaker in order to pay for my school equipment.

When people ask what college I graduated from, I say: I didn't graduate from college. I graduated from Nike. I started my career as an intern getting coffee.

I had been very focused on the issue of education disparities in our country, and literally, by the time kids are just nine years old, in low-income communities, they're already three or four grade levels behind nine-year-olds in high-income communities.

I went to eight different schools my first nine years of school.

It took me nine years to get through the fourth grade. When I got into television commercials, I had to take a crash course in reading. I was 32 years old, and I couldn't read the cue cards.

I think that anyone who denies their heritage doesn't deserve their destiny. My grandmother was a maid. She put nine children - eight of them - through college; I did not finish college.