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Quotes About Education

It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.
~ Yuan T. Lee
I was an educated girl. I'd done very well in school. I had a good point average and graduated from USC as an English teacher. My dad didn't even finish high school.
~ Marlo Thomas
I feel really good in the teacher role.
~ Jimmy Chamberlin
I wasn't a very good student. I prefer to learn by experience.
~ Cristin Milioti
I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents.
~ Doris Lessing
I.B.M. was my college education, effectively. They were very good at teaching you management.
~ Mike McCue
A good education prepares a child to be a good employee and a good citizen-in that order, with the importance of the former never exceeding the importance of the latter.
~ Cullen Hightower
There is desperate education inequality in America, and I think every kid deserves a good teacher and a good school regardless of the ZIP code that he or she lives in.
~ Hillary Clinton
There's a very close tie between good health and good education.
~ Laura Bush
Good teaching comes from good people.
~ Parker J. Palmer
I was always a very good student.
~ Renee Fleming
I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.
~ Richard Ford
I attended the public schools.And I have happy memories and strong memories of those days and good memories of the good sense and the decency of my friends and my neighbors.
~ Samuel Alito
Good writing is difficult no matter what the reader's age-and children deserve the best.
~ Aaron Shepard
I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
~ Abraham Verghese
In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I believe this is a very good thing.
~ Adam Hamilton
When I was 14 or 15, a camp counselor told me I was smart. I had never been very good in school, but he told me once that I was smart but my mind operated a little differently.
~ Alan Dershowitz
All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.
~ Anna Quindlen
... good teachers, like Tolstoy's happy families, are alike everywhere.
~ Bel Kaufman
A good teacher is someone who can help you to get back to a teacher within.
~ bell hooks
[Africa] is the one continent where you still have a lot more young people than old people. So making sure they're healthy, good nutrition, good education. That'll be important for the world.
~ Bill Gates
The last thing we need to do, relating to teachers, is the key to a good education in this country is a strong teacher. I would have a minimum wage for all our teachers, $40,000 per year.
~ Bill Richardson
I'm not very good in a classroom sort of setting. I never was. I was kind of a clown in high school - got suspended a lot.
~ Bobby Cannavale
I wasn't good at examinations, but I went to a very good secondary school - Bolton-on-Dearne - with wonderful teachers, who taught me drama and encouraged me in every way.
~ Brian Blessed