Quotes About Education

I did my undergraduate work at the University of California when it was still affordable. But tuition keeps on rising.

I come from people who did not go to college. They didn't even finish high school. People who one might call ordinary Americans who are very hardworking.

School visits are something I do fairly often: I always say to the students that somebody has got to end up with the interesting careers, so why not them?

The proper education of poor children [is] the ground-work of almost every other kind of charity.... Without this foundation firstlaid, how much kindnessis unavoidably cast away?

I've been lucky enough to work with extraordinary teachers along the way, and I'm excited to share what I've learned with graduate students at SNHU. I'm just as excited for what I'll learn from them.

After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.

I don't think that you want to see universities in any way trying to have any kind of quota system about political views, or views in general. You want the market to work in the way the market works.

Universities are set up to get people to work together by having them disagree with each other.

... too many young painters of the day work for the crowd, and not for art. But, then, should not the painters of the day work for the education of the crowd?

Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

Modeling was never anything that was a career choice. I did catalog work in Toronto to make money so that I could go to school.

My brothers went to work at 12 and put themselves through school and brought the family out of ruin into food and clothing.

I learn the whole time. I think it would be dull if I thought I was going to work and wouldn't find something new. We always learn.

So you find a lot of these sixth Americans congregate in these interracial congregations. They hang out together at work, at school, wherever.

If you haven't saved, your child may have to work. But do what you can to NEVER take out student or parent loans.

I'm actually graduating early. I got a lot of work done already. Being home schooled, I have had a lot of tutors help me.

I had gone to school to work on technique and found it wasn't something that was really worthwhile to me, although it probably was.

Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

I'd love to go to school, but every time I try I get a movie. That's actually how I get work: I enroll. That's like my good luck charm.

I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not.

By the time I was eight I was taking classical piano lessons and I wanted to be a concert pianist. But that didn't work out. I graduated from high school and my formal education ended.

In book subjects a student can only do a student's work. All that can be measured is how well he learns, rather than how well he performs. All he can show is promise.

I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been great years.