Quotes About Education

Being a little kid, you don't hear much about racism. You figure everybody's the same. If racism isn't taught, you're just a black kid and a white kid together.

I love making books for children. Big kids, little kids, old kids and new.

I was raised in inner-city Liverpool, the first in my family to go to university.

I'd rather go to school and do loads of music than anything else.

For my mum, it was really important to teach me and my brothers, so it came more from her to be honest than anything else. She made sure that we just read loads of books about slavery, about black culture, about black history but I don't think everyone would have had that obviously.

When you get to college, they're never teaching you how to start a credit line or get a loan on a car, things of that nature.

I had loans in law school.

The thing about advertising is that you make more money. You can put kids through college so they don't come out with loans. My kids don't, and my grandkids don't, and advertising paid for that.

I really love learning and working long hours.

My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.

A daily dose of Nietzsche goes a long way.

Long-term I would love to go to law school.

I never went to college when I was young and am looking forward to giving it a try... at age 65!

We moved to Los Angeles because our daughter wanted to go to Pepperdine.

For me, having the opportunity to go to college was very important. To miss out on an education is a loss.

I would always be embarrassed to read out loud in class because I would transpose words and letters and things.

These are books that want to be read out loud. These are books kids share with each other, and I think that's important.

I'm an English teacher, so I'm used to reading and I'm used to reading out loud.

It's always lovely to know new languages.

I'm very involved with kids because after being a teacher for seven years, I just can't stop loving the kids. I am a teacher forever.

Today, public understanding of our past and our system of government is pitifully low.

I want to see us push for economical and educational advancement in communities of color and low-income communities, and I want to see our relationships between our communities and our law enforcement be advanced.

Sometimes, we didn't have enough to eat. I'd go to school with no lunch money, and my school would have to provide it.

The idea that science is just some luxury that you'll get around to if you can afford it is regressive to any future a country might dream for itself.