Quotes About Education

Everything I have today is because of Africa, I was born here, went to school here, I work here and I'm achieving some level of financial comfort here

The child will reveal himself through work.

My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.

Sometimes it is better to work out the map for yourself rather than have it given to you, in terms of learning.

I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's.

Don't be addicted to money. Work to learn. don't work for money. Work for knowledge.

The teacher, when she begins work in our schools, must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal himself through work.

I work hard at it [delivery of lyrics], just like I worked hard at getting my masters degree. It's not just something I sit down and do. You have to learn and keep learning.

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

It's been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don't have to work.

What if the primary work of education was the transforming of our imagination rather than the saturation of our intellect?

I didn't work especially hard at mathematics at school, because I knew that's what I'd be doing later.

You can never learn less; you can only learn more.

Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.

I am a nationalist, and a Pan-Africanist, first and foremost. I was well grounded in history before ever taking a history course. I did not spend much formal time in school - I had to work.

By discovering how our minds work, we can improve our learning power and unlock our true potential.

The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.

You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.

I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents' hard work that most people don't have.

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

An adult who does not understand that a child needs to use his hands and does not recognize this as the first manifestation of an instinct for work can be an obstacle to the child's development

I do work very hard. I have been very colored by that education. I spent six days a week, seven hours a day training. That will always be the foundation of my work.

Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.