Quotes About Education

Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or in colleges.

My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.

I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.

I want to work with kids. I would love to be a teacher.

We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.

I teach in the medical school, the School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Business School. And it's the best perch... because most of my work crosses boundaries.

Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.

Work hard in school and listen to your parents. They really do want the very best for you and have been where you're going.

You want to know what I make? I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could. I can make a C+ feel like a Congressional Medal of Honor, and I can make a...

Study and know that we are always a student of the craft well after we've completed any course of study... and approach the work as a servant, not a star.

Teaching is a never-ending story. The work is never over; the job is never done.

For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977

Most teachers still say they love teaching though they wouldn't mind a little more respect for their challenging work and a little less blame for America's educational shortcomings.

To make headway, improve your head.

If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian work. I don't think I have been as successful

Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work.

Hopefully I can finish my degree before I get done playing and work with my foundation.

I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.

Learn all you can about people in other parts of the world. Understanding how people in other countries live and work and play teaches us to respect them and promote peace everywhere.

I teach literature. That's easy for me. Take someone else's work and talk about it.

I was raised with this idea of hard work and keeping doors open. To be able to choose what you want to do in the future. That was what we tried to tell our children, too.

Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.

But I must say the work I'm proudest of is the Green Cross Code man.

Mainstream Canadians, what some might call the dominant culture, like to think this racism doesn't happen. It's important to remind people that it does and that we have work to do to end it.