Quotes About Education

Learning Gardens are outdoor classrooms, engaging learning environments where kids learn about math, science, entrepreneurship, and above all else, real food.

Any time there was a break from university I'd be doing some kind of outdoor job.

I worry that more and more kids my age are growing up without experiencing the outdoors, which means that fewer will care about the natural world.

We think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is, but for me, the U.S. Marine Corps was a four-year crash course in character education. It taught me how to make a bed, how to do laundry, how to wake up early, how to manage my finances. These are things my community didn't teach me.

We're not going to outgrow our need for information.

My outlook was, 'You're not my moms; you can't tell me what to do.' I got expelled from about 20 schools.

I think it's sort of an outrage that companies should have to hire firms to teach the college graduates they employ how to write.

I dedicate much of my success to what I learned inside and outside the classroom at Porter-Gaud, and I want to give that same opportunity to other kids in Charleston.

Many more schools can be outstanding.

My interest in science started in junior high school where an outstanding science teacher, Mrs. Baumgardner, introduced me to the joys of science.

All the nine-planet people out there: Get over it. There's eight.

The very first schoolbook that was written had God all over it.

I was the girl who did everybody's homework, but I was also, like, student council president and yearbook editor and, like, all-around overachiever. Like, I'm disabled, but I can do anything.

The drive for growth of education technology will further accelerate. Another key area of major growth is e-Health. The overall outlook for the industry is certainly optimistic.

Every day, I see my students work hard to overcome obstacles just to be in the classroom.

I was not allowed to take spherical trigonometry because I'd sprained my ankle. Because I'd sprained my ankle, I had an incomplete in gym, phys ed. And the rule was that if you had an incomplete in anything, you were not allowed to take an overload.

If you lose control of your debt and deficit, you get massive cuts in things such as health and education. You get appalling insecurity, jobs lost, firms going overseas.

If I can teach cricket overseas, why wouldn't I do so in my own country?

My parents are overweight, and I think the biggest problem we have in America is a lack of education. The place to start is with parents and teaching them to cook healthier.

I often deliberately overwhelm my players. If I give them 10 things a day and they learn four of them, I'm happier than if I stick to the learning theory where the goal is a maximum of five things per day and then they only remember two.

It keeps me from getting too overwhelmed about the industry when I can just do my math homework.

Any so-called training experience that lacks the slow-down characteristic is an exercise in nonlearning.

I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's all clever stuff.

Going online and asking questions is the best way to learn.