Quotes About Education

By junior high, I was a horrible student. But during my sophomore year of high school, I did have a fabulous English teacher, and I would go to school just for her class and then skip out afterwards. That's actually when I started writing, although I didn't think of it then as something I might someday do.

No two children learn in the same way. While we might agree that every American eight-year-old should be able to read and multiply, beyond those basics, there are few reasons to make every student follow the same path.

I started at General Motors at 18 years old as a co-op student at the General Motors Institute, which is now Kettering.

As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things.

Into the soul of every student I would have instilled the patriotic fervor of Patrick Henry.

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?

The great classics that, as a professional you don't get to do, you do as a student, when you don't know any better.

I was a horrible student.

What I started to read and most enjoyed while I was a student was an Italian edition of 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.'

In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.

I was a straight-A student. But I was a bad lad.

I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.

Apparently, blaming oneself for debilitating student debt is common.

As a student, I was more gifted in history and geography. Things like arithmetic were not my strength.

You would think, because I stayed to myself and I was shy, that I'd be a good student, but actually, I was a bad student. I was in detention a lot, mainly for cutting, being late to class. I was in tardy hall a lot. I hate the idea of homework. I don't get it.

Navient's actions have led to student borrowers needlessly carrying billions of dollars in debt, and the company must be held accountable.

As educators and policy makers, it is important to demonstrate for parents the connection between high levels of student participation in assessment and system accountability - ensuring the success of every student.

I grew up in New York City. In elementary school, I was a charter member of the Scribble Scrabble Club, and in high school, my poems were published in an anthology of student poetry.

I'm not just a dumb basketball player who got lucky and graduated from college. My ratio for professor to student was nine-to-one so it wasn't like I wasn't going to class. I was going to class every day.

It's actually really great to be a student and an actor, because I get to do this job that I love, then just when I think my head might explode, I get to go to school where they don't really care about what magazine cover I'm on.

My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier.

I just consider myself a student, trying to learn more about it.

The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina.

I cannot say that I was a particularly diligent student, especially during the lower grades.