Quotes About Education

The lecture is never over. Education is not a preparation for life, my young friends, education is life. Now take what I've taught you and get out there and do some serious good.

Reading is weightlifting for the brain

I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century.

There was no question of ever sending us to Jewish schools... They wanted us out there. They wanted us to be lawyers and doctors. They wanted us out of the religious thing, apart from that ethnic bonding.

There was no question that I was going to school.

There is no question of the government or myself attaching less importance to the use of English.

This is the richest country in the world. There's no reason kids should be going to school hungry. Food is something that everyone should have. It just is.

There's no reason why you can't deliver a grammar-school curriculum to an all-ability intake.

The truth was that, you know, there was no reason to send me to Shattuck Military School. But it was a disciplinarian school.

I already had a lot of friends at school who didn't care about the whole acting thing, so there was no reason for me to not be in school.

There is no reason why an American scholar cannot by himself or herself develop an adequate understanding of another culture. And I don't find any reason to suppose that the birth within a culture automatically confers understanding.

That's what really bothered me about high school: There was just no time to do anything other than school.

I used the Nobel money to buy a house and for the education of my children.

If I could help educate our children at an institution for higher learning, that would be a noble thing.

When you have a brilliant idea, nobody is going to ask to see your diploma.

Because sanitation has so many effects across all aspects of development - it affects education, it affects health, it affects maternal mortality and infant mortality, it affects labor - it's all these things, so it becomes a political football. Nobody has full responsibility.

Me mum used to always have the radio on - even now she has it on in every room. Me girlfriend sort of blames that reason for me not doing that well at school - constant noise, really.

I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't know.

Non-fiction books have helped me enormously with lots of my books.

I love all kinds of books, which include fiction and non-fiction.

The chips fall into place, but the educational experience I had at Cal, second to none.

Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to be exposed to things, because if they don't see it, eventually, it's not like it's not going to happen, but it's just that there needs to be a balance.

When I went to law school, which I put myself through for $100,000 dollars of debt, I didn't expect anybody to pay for my health insurance, which I had none of. No health insurance.

There were lots of smart black people at Harvard before Barack Obama, but none of them ever got to head up the law review. There has been a history of discrimination.