Quotes About Education

Ultimately, you have to work for your own enlightenment - for smarts - or it gets boring.

My father had left school at 18, without enough money to go to college - and, with four sons after the war, said he could still not afford to do so.

Food poverty comes in two strands. The first is not having enough money to buy food for yourself and your family. The second is poverty of education.

In India, not enough importance is given to writing for children. And what could be more important than the enrichment of young minds with great literature?

Education is the key to opportunity and ensuring our students are ready for jobs in a 21st century economy.

I am not the type who'd enter the best schools just to prove myself.

Since I liked to draw, I entered a design-oriented high school.

I watch documentaries for information. I watch films to be entertained.

At the end of the day, TV is supposed to be entertaining. But it's important for me that there's some take-away value from it.

I think it's important to teach kids to entertain themselves and to be entertaining.

I'm not enthusiastic about educational games or apps generally.

It is much easier to learn another language when you are young, enthusiastic and unembarrassed.

Being educated in the United States gave me a good understanding of American culture. I think I got a lot of influence from the entrepreneurial mind in the United States.

Academics are becoming much more entrepreneurial these days.

When the first episode of 'Mythbusters' aired in 2003, I couldn't drive a car. I couldn't see a R-rated movie. I was 14 years old, and I couldn't do much of anything. But 'Mythbusters' taught me that I could do science.

All children should have equal opportunities.

I believe education is the great equalizer.

Kids need to be equipped for that. They need to learn to use that technology to keep the new economy going.

I went to Locke High School in Watts towards the end of the super gangbanging era.

One of these days, I'm going to stop learning through my errors.

I always try to improve in every aspect and learn from my errors.

Don't opt for acting as an escape from education.

Ensuring that our children have more and better opportunities is the essence of the American dream.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.