Quotes About Education

My degree was in education, but the idea of being a teacher lost out to being a reporter. I worked at a newspaper for a while, then went to New York and worked in PR at RCA and NBC, and at 'The United States Steel Hour,' a drama series.

I had a pretty steep learning curve in film - as I'm still learning.

The fact that my parents were both educated and held certain values very dearly, like honesty, self-respect and integrity, meant that I could steer clear of many pitfalls.

I don't recall my parents ever steering me toward or away from science. It was more that I was steered toward learning and excellence in the classroom.

Had Barack Obama been obliged to take his degree at the University of Akron, say, it is doubtful that his progress would have been remotely as stellar.

After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

As the father of three daughters, I can tell you, not every kid is cut out to be a STEM graduate.

A report released by the Partnership for a New American Economy and the Partnership for New York City predicts that by 2018, there will be 800,000 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) jobs in the United States that require a master's degree or higher - and only around 550,000 American-graduates with this training.

From what we understand about participation by women and minorities, we need to do a better job of exposing people early in their careers to STEM fields.

We need more STEM grads, and we need to quit equipping our competitors.

We've got to look to our educational programs and focus on doing what we can to stem violence in the schools.

I tell students that I believe STEM majors have the most exciting opportunities than any other majors in college.

We need to beef up STEM education.

STEM education is an area where we can't afford to leave anyone behind.

As Governor, expanding access to STEM programs for students has been a top priority of mine.

It's wonderful to see more of my colleagues recognizing the importance of investing in STEM education and scientific research and development.

By inspiring children to pursue interests in STEM early on, we are instilling in them the curiosity needed to show them that these fields are as equally accessible to them as anyone else.

In medicine, you learn about ethics from day one. In mathematics, it's a bolt-on at best. It has to be there from day one and at the forefront of your mind in every step you take.

As African-Americans, people of that generation felt pretty much if they were going to see changes in the world, they had to make sacrifices and step up to the plate. I'm very proud that my parents happened to be people who did. They were not privileged to have a formal education.

What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.

Everything was a lesson learned and a step forward for me.

Growing up, I had a lot of family members who worked in the Dallas Independent School District, and they shared stories firsthand with me about kids stepping into the cafeteria hungry before practice, or waiting for the school building to open the next morning just so they could get a meal.

Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.