Quotes About Education

In Idaho, we hope to see educators using Khan Academy to individualize their instruction. Instead of a one-size-fits-all lesson, teachers will be able to focus their attention on specific students who are struggling while the rest of the class engages with material appropriate for them.

I never really felt pushed at school or that I was struggling; it came naturally.

The goal is to get people off low-calorie diets. They're struggling, they're barely eating anything. They need educating.

I was a struggling college student like everyone else. I bicycled to class.

Teachers need to have the capacity to spot those that are struggling early on and intervene.

Obviously Massachusetts has one of the best public school systems in the country. But there are schools, like in Brockton, where kids are struggling because they just need more funding.

I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.

If you are not constantly improving and learning, then you are going to be stuck and not progress.

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

Charter schools in particular have proven a lifeline for millions of children stuck in chronically failing schools.

I've always said that with kids' TV that people get stuck in it from drama school but that's not fair because I know myself that when you go in creatively, kids are so much more open to ideas. You're so much freer to mess about and try things.

I guess sci-fi was like my candy growing up. My dad always thought it was important for me to read an hour or two every night. And if I got stuck or didn't want to read, sci-fi was sort of the thing you'd give me to spur me on to read that evening.

My father told me when I went to college that I needed to take an accounting class. I enrolled and went the first day. I didn't understand a thing that was being said and dropped the class. I really regret that decision. I should have stuck it out and learned the basics of accounting, but I took the easy way out.

For me, I just stuck to school. I thought you can't be bullied and dumb, so books and I will be friends.

I was a really good student. In the sixth grade, I was reading at a twelfth grade reading level. But I got bored.

I was a disinterested student.

Every student has something to offer, and every student deserves a nurturing learning environment.

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

I want to see myself as a student. Keep learning, keep improving, keep your eyes and ears open.

The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

I was never a bright student, potentially never good at dramatics; I was sometimes given one-line roles that I was happy to do so that I could bunk classes. My mother used to cry three times a year, and that is when my report card used to come.

I've always maintained that I see myself as a student. There's always something to learn and be challenged by and hopefully grow from.

My dad, who was a teacher, used to tell me that a teacher's goal should be for every one of their students to get an A. If that's your goal every day - to make every student or player learn - then it doesn't matter if you won last year or didn't win. When next year's team shows up, I try to help every player become as good as they can be.

I was never a good student. I had to be dragged into kindergarten. It was hard to sit and listen to somebody talk. I wanted to be out, educated by experience and adventure, and I didn't know how to express that.