Quotes About Education

The children are being conditioned to think that the purpose of life is to get a good job. You get paid but you don't get satisfaction from your work.

There's so much to be found in literature, especially if you don't have the money to travel or the means to get out of your neighborhood or get off work.

Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don't go to lectures at all.

In college I had to major in something, so I was like, "Okay I like art history, so I will major in that." I never really had any ambitions to work in museums or anything, though.

I like explaining things, and I believe that you can do very high-level explanation on basic cable news provided you are willing to work hard enough to be a good storyteller.

The work that the kids saw around them was so odious, so boring, so worthless that they came to regard WORK as the only dirty four-letter word in the English language.

Believe in your work, educate yourself about the business, surround yourself with good people, set goals and timetables and stay focused on them.

A school out of Canberra sends me a term's worth of work. I sit on the couch by myself and complete it and send it back.

The greatest work in all the world is the building of men and women of character. Without character there is not much that is worthwhile.

As you grow up and get educated in the business, you go from, 'I want to do movies' to 'I want to work. In whatever.

I didn't want to be a dancer... I just did it to work my way through college. But I was always an athlete and gymnast, so it came naturally.

People are educated into the fact that as a people we stand a better chance of knowing how to work the law if we know the history of the law and the history of our people's relationship with it.

That's what they should teach us here. How girls' brains work... It would be more useful than divination, anyway.

Work-do plays, learn your craft, and go to school. Keep working. Nobody is going to give you jobs for going to parties or any of that nonsense. Go out, look around, do things.

Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.

I'm always interested in craft and I was interested to see how people work. For me, it's a little like lessons at school.

I have this philosophy that A and B students work for C students.

An educated child is better equipped to handle all the challenges of life, from finding work to avoiding diseases like HIV/AIDS.

I really would like to work with kids if I was not a model.

I prefer home-schooling because you can work at your own pace and go towards more what you're interested in, whether it be history or geography or math.

I'm actually a lot happier because I work as a teacher; more than just a capitalist making money for myself.

Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.

Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head.

How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?