Quotes About Education

I was getting rewarded for writing well, from about the age of five or six. A teacher would say, "Look what Andrew has written," and I thought, "Maybe I could be a writer."

The ages between birth and age 5 are the foundation upon which successful lives are built.

Only the schools' inefficiency can account for creativity surviving after age 25.

If General Haig is so smart, why did he finish 214th (out of 310) in his graduating class at West Point? Does that mean there are 213 generals his age who are smarter than he is?

I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.

At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.

Teaching children how to be eco-friendly at preschool age is just so obvious and so fantastic. It creates habits that they get into for a lifetime and then they put pressure on their parents.

Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.

You can bring your children under age 18 into the voting booth with you. Many families do so as a way to teach civic responsibility.

The educator shall help the young to educate themselves in opposition to the age.

I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.

Throughout the world, terrorists are actively seeking their next recruit. Alarmingly, terrorist organizations are increasingly targeting school-age children as the next generation of terrorists

The Iran-Iraq war began the same year that I went to primary school, at the age of six.

At my age, you are naturally inclined towards teaching.

Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning.

Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.

I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.

The fact is, there's no such thing as "The Age of Abstinence."

In this day and age it's really stupid to be stupid about financial matters. It doesn't do you any good to make money if you don't know what to do with it other than spend it.

At the age of 12, my parents gave me a chemistry set for Christmas, and experimentation soon became a consuming passion in my life.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted

I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock.

Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.