Quotes About Education

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able to enter kindergarten ready to learn.

If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.

Our education should be such as to improve our minds and fit us for increased usefulness; to make us of greater service to the human family.

Education can change the scope of an entire family

I'm the least-educated person in my immediate family. My two other brothers have multiple advanced degrees, and I only have one. [...] Actually, now that I've got a Nobel Prize, I feel equal.

I was first in my family to go to college.

If you have a friend or a family member who's bipolar, or has panic attack disorder, or is depressed, read up on it a little bit so you can get to know where they're coming from.

Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.

China had managed to reduce their fertility to a large extent because of basic expansion of women's education, not because of the one-child family.

We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.

I want every Filipino woman empowered with information regarding all options available to her regarding family planning.

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

My family put a lot of emphasis on homework, so there weren't too many comic books or video games for me, when I was growing up.

I come from a long line of teachers. Not only did I not go into the family business; I had an aborted law career and I played in bands. 'Disco Pigs' was my first professional acting experience.

I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.

You learn to read in kindergarten or first grade, and suddenly there's this other world that isn't your family or your school or your friends. It's something else.

As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.

I was born in Norwich in 1946, and educated in England, Zimbabwe, and Australia, before my family settled in North Wales.

I was the first person to go to university from my family.

Everyone in my family can sing - my momma can sing, my cousins. I was in the third grade and I was that kid who was so bad in school because I could sing.

My parents, both of them had teachers in their family and were pretty well read. So my father voted for [Dwight] Eisenhower.

My family were all musicians. I really wasn't interested in school or anything.

I was raised in a family where my father was the first one to go to college.