Quotes About Education

My mom never went to college, so she just assumed the writer identity, and that was always really inspiring to me. It's not something you need nine levels of education for. It's really an identity that you claim for yourself, and then you have to make yourself one.

I know there are things I did in education that will never be reversed. I have not done that in film yet because I have only been here for about nine months.

I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.

I've been homeschooled since ninth grade.

I never finished the ninth grade.

Our family story here is one that we're proud of, and that is that, as the ninth of 10 kids in our family, I was the first who, right out of high school, was able to go to four-year college... it was a big moment in our family's life.

My parents both made it to ninth grade and then dropped out, so I just want to have that higher education so when I have kids one day I'll be able to tell them and I'll be a better role model for them.

I did attend Catholic schools up to the ninth grade, and I admire much in the Catholic Church.

Even when they don't know who Nixon was, these shows will continue to play.

Theoretically, I have no business starting an organization called Girls Who Code, because I don't code.

While I have no desire to see Mr. Obama's birth certificate, I do want to see his college transcripts.

I had begun reading earlier than most because my sister Emmy Lou, no doubt to keep me from bothering her, decided it was easier to teach me to read stories to myself rather than to read them to me, as she had been doing.

I learned that education and sport are the bedrock for any person, but education comes first, no doubt about it.

No doubt there are dangers involved in letting children go online unsupervised.

As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.

But I think your biggest crime as a citizen of society or America or the world is to be ignorant by choice. There's no excuse for that. I feel, when the information is at my fingertips, I could never choose to be ignorant.

There's no experience like on-the-job training.

My dad was the only son from his entire family to come to America, and I was his only son. We had come to the States to achieve security and success for our family. Rules were simple: No fun, no friends, no girls. Go to school, come home, and study.

We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation of Americans, a generation who are looking forward to finishing their education with no jobs, no future, but still saddled with enormous and unforgivable debt.

In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.

No future employer is going to comb your college transcript to see how you fared in Microeconomics 300. In fact, you won't even be asked about where you went to school after your first entry level job.

Americans believe if you go to college, you have something to fall back on, which makes sense. I don't have any degrees. If I hadn't become a golfer, I have no idea what I would be doing with my life.

April 25th is DNA Day. I know, you probably had no idea.

Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.