Quotes About Education

I'm not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.

When we're doing our lessons, the teacher doesn't say, 'Ready, set, work,' They say, 'Ready, set, play,' and I always took that word seriously.

I do most of my work with kids. They are the very foundation of our future. We are so incredibly disrespectful to them in America in every way because they can't vote.

The lack of education means, the lack of having something I can pull out of a drawer, means I have to find something in any movie I work on that is intensely personal.

I didn't go to university, and so, every time that I work, I'm looking for a teacher in a way. I'm looking for people that I can learn from and to have the chance to work with people that I admire.

No one has the right to threaten the health, education, and well-being of children by involving them in illegal or inappropriate work.

I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement.

Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.

To exterminate our popular vices is a work of far more importance to the character and happiness of our citizens than any other improvements in our system of education.

Before I go to work, I like to pump myself up by crying over my master's degree.

I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange.

I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.

I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.

Most architects work in ­studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and ­historical ­research were irrelevant.

So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.

While I wouldn't object to work at a restaurant or a different place that sells decent-or-better food, I think that I can learn much more by becoming a coder.

It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.

The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.

I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income.

You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them.