Quotes About Education

Some friends of mine had parents who made school a treat, a gift - not something to be endured.

At school I wasn't particularly engaged. I was sort of a look-out-the-window guy.

I will only miss school for an engagement if it is going to bring real change.

We've not given any attention to the people in their 50s and 60s, who need attention, education and engagement, in terms of the society and in terms of their identity as human beings.

What is the engine that drives economic growth in an ideopolis? The university.

I'm an engineer by training.

An 18-year-old is good enough for our business, and we can teach them engineering in two years.

I didn't want to be an electrical engineer. But I did want to go to college. And they said they'd help me pay for it if I'd major in electrical engineering.

I just want people to be excited about hard stuff, that's what engineering is.

I had gone to university and done engineering and then I got into art school and said I'm going to do this for three years.

I don't have to be an engineer to understand we need female engineers.

I want to learn English.

I wasn't very good at school and appalling at English.

I got my degree in philosophy and English literature; those were my main interests.

I really liked English literature, a subject I did really well at.

I studied French and English literature because I liked it.

I did try to go to college and try to be an English major.

I read good. I was an English major.

I thought I'd be an English teacher and a baseball coach somewhere.

History was the subject that didn't seem like work. It was enjoyable. That's why I was drawn to doing it really.

I enjoyed my schooldays, but I thought, 'I've got to get through it, and then my life can start.'

People learn more when they're enjoying themselves.

If we want to enlighten people or give them new thoughts and ideas, we have to be willing to do the work of educating them.

I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.