Quotes About Education

My parents were really poor. We never bought books because you could go to the library. It would be stupid to buy one.

My mother brought us to the library every week, and I read a lot. That's what kept me company. I went from school to school, but there was always reading.

It wasn't that long ago that I was coming up, but it feels almost ancient that you had to go to the library and you had 'World Book Encyclopedias.'

Education for all up to 18, and lifelong learning beyond. That is a vision true to Ruskin - the man, the college, and the speech.

My parents are more likely to know who Franz Liszt is than Snooki.

I definitely am the sort of person that likes to be constantly learning things.

You can learn more about leadership by reading about Lincoln than you can from most business books.

I've always wanted to have some sort of academy or program that links education and basketball.

No matter how much you know, you can always learn more and be a good listener.

Always be listening and learning.

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

We have to teach empathy as we do literacy.

There's a very low amount of data literacy around people.

There's a great lack of financial literacy and understanding in this nation, even among college-educated people.

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.

I always say, and I mean it, that the great break of my literary career was when I went to law school.

There's definitely a value in being literate.

Mv mother was so literate and literary.

Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature.

When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.

I always loved science. And in fact, I got a science award in high school. I mean, I loved science, but I think I loved literature more.

As a little girl growing up in the Deep South, my mother told me that my future lay in my education. And she was right.

I love acting since I was little girl. I went to school for it; that's all I worked on. That's all I prepared for.

When I came out of high school, I was a little kid. I didn't understand the business.