Quotes About Education

In my family, education was always important.

Quite a few, actually, are involved in education. They have had the same experience Hanna and I had: when they started having their own kids, they didn't want them to have a poor educational experience; they wanted them to enjoy school.

Working with a great actor is really educational.

'Squidbillies' is pretty educational.

I hate the word educational! I mean, 'Downton Abbey' is educational in that you come away from it knowing so much more about that period than when the show started, but you don't come away thinking it was educational.

No child is racist. A child is born, and then they go through the educational system.

I'd like to work on job and educational opportunities for all.

The impact of poverty on our kids and their learning. That's something I've understood pretty intimately throughout my career as an educator.

It is clear that IDEA '97 not only undermines the educational process, it also undermines the authority of educators.

I come from a family of educators.

I was a bad egg. I didn't like going to class.

When he was eighteen, my dad went off to college to become an architect.

I decided that I wanted to be a lawyer in eighth grade.

We need our HBCUs. The youth need our HBCUs. The elders need our HBCUs.

If people think that local elections are won or lost on local education matters, that isn't happening.

I majored in elementary education, and I have a passion for kids.

I had to work to eat. I couldn't even complete a basic elementary education.

I think with every book you realize you are partway through and there is something really elementary that you should have researched.

I work with elementary- and middle school-age girls.

The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that.

My dad was a roofer; my mom worked in elementary school.

I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.

It's definitely not the case that every child living in poverty is eligible for free school lunches.

I care about education for everyone, not just the elite.