Quotes About Education

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.

What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express the emotions in beauty and the mind with accuracy and strength.

I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.

That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.

The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

People who believe in creationism say that by teaching evolution you are indoctrinating them with science, but I just don't agree with that.

I would never advocate anyone doing anything without educating themselves and finding out exactly what they're in for.

When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.

I truly believe children learn by examples much more than what you can teach them verbally.

Do I think I'm under-educated? Academically, absolutely. I never took any exams, no O- or A-levels.

In school, I was good in academics and extracurricular activities. I even topped the state in French in my Std 12 exams.

I feel a responsibility to encourage everyone to excel in science.

I did well in school and was able to excel in those areas where I knew I needed to be good at.

I've always been interested in cross-cultural exchange with the youth.

I mean, I knew I wanted to do this kind of thing in school, but to actually have somebody that would bring you into that world, that was really exciting, you know?

I don't think, in my entire 18 years as a student, I ever used an exclamation point in an academic paper.

I don't believe a mistake-free learning environment exists.

I think when you provide something absolutely free, the potential of abuse exists. Getting an education without skin in the game is not good.

Some kids don't know where they'll spend the night. How can we expect them to focus on learning?

If college expectations are not taught at home, teach them in school.

I grew up in a close-knit community where I was expected to excel, and it was a different experience when I got to the university. There were very few students of color, and those numbers were extremely low in the school of engineering.