Quotes About Education

Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.

Repeating third grade at a new school, after having been asked to leave my old one for hitting kids who made fun of my perceived stupidity, I was placed in the 'dummy class.'

People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.

Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and classical can only enhance the jazz. I started out playing classical, because you have to have that as a foundation.

As a female there aren't too many characters that are very empowering, and there's something very empowering about Lara Croft. She kicks butt and she does it in style. She's confident and she's educated.

That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are.

People think I have the benefit of a public school education. I have this suave and debonair label, but really, I'm as common as muck.

In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school.

All around me, I see girls forced to become rat racers in the College Application Industrial Complex, the subculture where students must craft themselves into the perfect specimens for college admission and often lose their authenticity, love of learning, and sense of self in the process.

I did not end up as broadly educated as my Cambridge colleagues, but I graduated probably better equipped to write a book on my chosen subject.

Basic Economics 101. It's the most complicated simple subject there is.

My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.

The reason most people get eating disorders is because they want to be skinny, but they do it stupidly, and they stop eating completely - nobody knows anything about nutrition or exercise. I think it should be a separate subject in school.

Maths? Aiyyo. You know what? I always had a love and hate relationship with the subject.

When the scary subject of race is finally broached, kids want to talk and talk. It's very satisfying.

I like historical pieces. History was my favorite subject in school, it was the only subject I excelled in. I love the idea of history and the idea that we may have the opportunity to learn from our past mistakes.

I realized that I was African when I came to the United States. Whenever Africa came up in my college classes, everyone turned to me. It didn't matter whether the subject was Namibia or Egypt; I was expected to know, to explain.

There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about.

English was always my favorite subject.

What you need to have is that link between your education and what you do. Make creativity part of the subject.

Geography was my best subject but that was only because of the game 'Carmen Sandiego.' I chased her all over the world.

With my students, I always have to sell my subject because I know when you're 19, 20 years old, you've got other things on your mind besides American history. What I have to do is make this as compelling as possible.

The most frequent complaint I hear from college students is that professors inject their leftist political comments into their courses even when they have nothing to do with the subject.

Math - it's not my best subject.