Quotes About Education

I always thought that I was okay with arithmetic.

I have a biology degree, okay?

I wasn't that academic, but I always made sure I was earning money. I never wanted to put all my eggs in one basket. Even when I started doing music, my parents were like, 'You need to work; you can't just live off music.' I always knew that. So I worked until I knew I was going to be financially okay.

I was a good student. I started college at 16 years old and did okay.

When I wanted to become a serious actor, this girl told me, 'You should go to Juilliard.' And I said, 'Okay.'

I went on to Oklahoma State University, who was the best flight school in the United States at that time from the mid '50s on to the '70s.

In high school, driver's ed was at the same time as drama class. And I had to take drama class. Now I can sing the lead in 'Oklahoma!,' but I can't drive.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

More kids should churn butter. That's how it was in the old days.

I worked at Sir-Tech, and then when I got old enough to go to college, I went to college but continued to work at Sir-Tech to put myself through college.

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do.

I got an old school coach who's more of a teacher than a coach.

I watch old school film so that I can learn so much that I just sort of miss all the new stuff.

I was brought up with old-fashioned values. I wasn't allowed to have a boyfriend until I finished school. I wasn't allowed to wear make-up: the nuns would scrub your face if they saw it.

My grandma was so old-fashioned. She thought we were supposed to have homework every night. I would come home, and she would be like, 'Where's your homework?' and I'd be like, 'I don't have none.' She'd be like, 'I'ma call your teacher.'

I'm the product of the classical, old-fashioned European education that is broad-based. You want to get your degree in the world, you have to study all sorts of things.

When asked to explain this space, I often ask people to forget pretty much everything you've heard about blockchains, crypto-currencies, and bitcoin, and instead dumb it down a lot and think about something no more complex or intimidating than good old-fashioned database technology.

Call me old-fashioned, but it's always been my firm belief that a teacher's job should be for each of his or her students to finish the year with a grade of 100%.

You know how when you get older you actually want to learn? When I went to college, I wasn't as interested in the art history classes as I am now.

Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.

My older brother was the person who got me interested in science in general. He used to tell me what he learned in school. My first memory of mathematics is probably the time that he told me about the problem of adding numbers from 1 to 100.

I have an older brother who is 21 and attends UC Berkley.

I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.