Quotes About Education

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

I double-majored in Political Studies and Theatre & Performance.

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.

As an assistant in the polytechnic department, I was able to finance new studies and got my Physics Masters Degree in 1958 and my Ph.D. in 1959.

I had a lot of pity for myself. But I could concentrate more on my studies as a result.

I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad at studies. I was not very good at sports, also.

I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a big band within 500 miles and that I could do what I wanted to do. And they said I could.

The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.

A lot of crap goes on in media studies, like in almost everything.

I did not find my studies particularly enthralling.

Both my parents wanted me to excel academically, like every other parent. They wanted me to pursue my higher studies.

I was a social studies teacher at a high school in the Bronx for five years.

I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.

I was told by my father nine times a day that you were going to get a job the minute you finish your studies.

Numerous studies have shown that students of color achieve better educational outcomes when they have teachers of color in the classroom, and as our student body becomes more diverse we should be doing everything we can to reflect that diversity among the educators who are mentoring and inspiring our next generation of young people.

I never even wanted to be an actress. I studied mass communication and wanted to study law in Newcastle, for which I even got a scholarship. But by then, I had started modelling. So, I took a year off to decide what to do. But once you are used to working, it's difficult to get back to studies.

People feel that I became an actor because I am from a film family and that my parents were actors. But actually, the only reason I wanted to become an actor was to get away from studies.

Today's kids have a mind of their own, and they know how to exercise it. Even if I wanted to tell Sara or my son Ibrahim how to lead their lives - which I don't - they would not listen to me. Luckily, Sara chose to complete her studies before pursuing acting. She attended Columbia University and then devoted her attention to Bollywood.

I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting.

I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.

My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional.

I don't really retain much from the first couple semesters of my criminal justice studies.

My first dream as a child was to become a pilot. My second dream was to become an astronomer, and I pursued in parallel efforts and studies in these two areas.

I'm double majoring in social studies - which is sociology, anthropology, economics, and philosophy - and African-American studies.