Quotes About Education

I like to do things where you do learn something and go on a journey, such as 'Strictly Come Dancing.'

The reason I wanted to do 'Strictly' in the end is that you come out of it having learned something.

We are making strides in educating our athletes.

The giant fraud that is Britain's education system strides ever onwards, messing up many more lives than it improves.

I used to be a teacher, and I know how difficult it is to strike a balance between focused conversation and an atmosphere which prevents creativity and thought.

In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

Looking back on the Tiananmen movement, it is striking how modest the protesters' demands were: an end to press censorship and restrictions on demonstrations; openness about the income of state leaders; increased funding for education.

Initially, I just used the guitar as a prop. I'd pose with it in front of a mirror in my Kiss makeup when I was skipping school. Then I figured out how to play the main riff to Deep Purple's 'Smoke on the Water' on just the E string. Next, my old man showed me how to play barre chords, and that's when things started getting really heavy.

You know, I never went to music school, and it's always seen as this very proper, serious thing to compose a string arrangement.

I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.

I grew up in a school that had a big music program, and it was incredible. It's what I looked forward to during the day. I had chorus, strings, band.

I don't judge anyone of any stripe by what they read. Reading is always good for you. It's a positive act.

Unfortunately, the music programs are being stripped out of the schools these days. We have to change that.

It's a very powerful, emotional thing to read a book, and to reduce it to a series of questions in a test strips something away from the book.

About the only way you can find out about the common man, his slang, what he looked like, what he thought, is through the comic strips. It's a powerful way for young people to learn history.

Education is the foundation for all we do in life, it shapes who we are and what we aspire to be. Creativity fuels innovation, and it's what all states should strive to instill in the next generations.

My mother and brother made me strive to get good grades and get through school.

That's what I tell my students at California Institute of the Arts where I taught for 27 years. I taught them if you strive to be a good person, maybe you might become a great jazz musician.

In my family, graduating and getting your bachelor's is just the beginning. It's only expected. You're underachieving if you don't strive for more than that.

At Udacity, we always strive to make things better and learn from our mistakes.

You can always go to uni later on in life. There's no set way. If you are at uni, work hard. Strive for your best.

Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to learn to write the characters.

There are a lot of stats and a strong correlation between dropout rates and crime as well as poverty.

A strong, educated middle class is what made America the greatest country in the world.