Quotes About Education

Adversity is a good school.

We were arguing about what was good to deal with making education fairer, diverse and more American. We were not arguing about where black scientists get a good education.

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

It's not good enough to just know what to say about the policy; it's really important to take the extra step to learn the policy, to be able to understand it, and articulate it.

I think thats what all New Zealanders who are fair-minded want - a good chance for everybody to get ahead, whether its education or housing.

I was a good student when I was a kid, and I did everything I was supposed to do, and I got A's.

My mom did a good job exposing me to different types of music.

The very good thing about MFA programs is their democratizing. They bring a lot of different people to the table.

You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school.

I have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason that he is anxious to conceal.

I always had good students.

It's not a good thing to live with hatred, especially when it is born of ignorance.

I joined the Young Liberals when I was 16 and it was a good way for me to understand how the Liberal Party worked and to learn basic political skills and techniques.

I can't imagine a genuinely intelligent boy getting much out of college, even out of a good college, save it be a cynical habit of mind.

We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.

The instruction furnished is not good enough for the youth of such a country ... There is not even any systematic instruction given on political morals: an enormous deficiency in a republic.

A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth.

It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.

A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.

We need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble.

We've got to have good schools in every zip code.

I learned a lot of good things in my school. I've audited a lot of other schools, and I guess after a while I got a little tired of the acting school atmosphere.

I became a professional actor in Detroit and I was able to earn some money. It was a good job because it permitted me to study. It fit perfectly with school.

The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't say yet that I've reached the goal.