Quotes About Education

We have to spend a lot more time training people to be good advocates of U.S. business.

I went to school in Tanzania for two years, from five to seven. I started off in my mother's school with a lot of African children - but then I was put into the international school.

She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.

I think that's vitally important, that we get players playing at a younger age group.

Education isn't part of my agenda, it is my agenda.

1950s education didn't agree with me. I was totally lost.

Growing up, I didn't really know who the Tuskegee Airmen were.

I always liked airplanes, and I decided I was going to go to school to study them.

Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that's part of society.

I love algebra. Love it.

There's a bunch of stuff I want to learn. Instead of waiting around on set all day, I'd rather be learning something cool.

As a child, I used 'gay' as a bad word, as in, 'That's so gay.' All my friends did.

I've been on campuses all my life.

I went to a school called Waterford Kamhlaba, and 'Kamhlaba' is what the king of Swaziland called the school because... in siSwati, it means 'all the world in one.'

Make education more accessible to women - all women, not just Americans.

I didn't learn the alphabet until I was 11.

I didn't learn the alphabet until I was 28 and could only learn that when someone told me to sing it.

It was always academic first, and I always put school work before football - although I did put a lot into football!

An amateur can be great in front of the camera, but you need an education to get on stage where you have full control as an actor.

I like to share my story with children, and they are amazed by the story.

There's a lot of amazing people that don't get into college.

We have to be ambitious for our young people.

I was never ambitious. I was never ambitious at school.

I learned a lot about American history though jazz, and that's why I loved American history when I was in high school. I could hear different stories - the story that they would tell in school, and then the story that I would hear in the music.