Quotes About Education

It is part of the work of education to have substantive relationships with your students.

I'd like to work with kids in special education - younger kids.

We should always be learning or we will cease to be able to change or adapt. I think the best work on leadership today is by Ronald Heifetz. His work is focused on adaptive leadership.

The best armor against everything around you is to be well educated, to work hard, to be twice as good as if you had to be, to do languages and culture better.

My job now is to work hard and learn all I can.

I want to fix education in the world. As soon as I work on that, I am going to work on world hunger and then world peace.

I'm a big fan of Tom Stoppard's work, and have been since I was in school where I studied him.

To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.

I am proud to work with the fossil fuel industry. I think it has historically done a horrible job of educating the public and I think my ideas will help it make a better case for freedom.

I go into work and get my hair and makeup done, go into wardrobe. I have to do three hours of school a day.

Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.

The rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them.

Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit

City Year is taking on some of the toughest work in education.

Humans are such creatures of habit that once they get us in all this debt that we accumulate from going college that we have to work it off for the rest of our lives.

The best way to get started on the path of sharing your work is to think about what you want to learn, and make a commitment to learning it in front of others.

Put simply, what I'd like to do is to see the first two years of community college free for everybody's who is willing to work for it.

I mentioned charter schools, and experimenting with our school system, to make it work. I think that's something we really have to pay attention to.

No development strategy can be based only upon what comes out of the ground, nor can it be sustained while young people are out of work.

And I want to work with this Congress, to make sure Americans already burdened with student loans can reduce their monthly payments, so that student debt doesn't derail anyone's dreams.

I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's work. It's a huge gap in my education, one of many.

Being a doctor at Johns Hopkins does not make me any better in God's sight than the individual who has not had the opportunity to gain such an education but who still works hard.

We are all born without knowledge, but curious. With curiosity we should be able to learn as much as possible. With curiosity, it has to take a lot of work to remain ignorant.

I was made to be where I'm at. I just had to go through some challenges, so that I can educate others later.