Quotes About Education

As my father [Jav?harl?l Nehr?] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it - otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.

My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'

All the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and the alphabet at th ' other.

Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.

I am the son of an illiterate father and mother.

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.

My father had very little formal education.

My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Unfortunately he had to turn it down so that he could continue to support his family.

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.

I came to New York in 1986. My father didn't think it was a good idea. I didn't know how I found it, but I went to Hunter College. I had no money and I couldn't speak English.

My father never permitted anything which I learnt to degenerate into a mere exercise of memory. He strove to make the understanding not only go along with every step of the teaching but...precede it.

Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold.

I believe that only through a truly educated citizenry can the ideals that inspired the Founding Fathers of our nation be preserved and perpetuated.

[My father was ] Presbyterian [minister]. But I did not take the Bible seriously until I was forced to take Hebrew at McCormick Theological Seminary.

If we can just get young people to do the same as their fathers did, that is, wear condoms

My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read.

[My son] will have a fairly stable future. Not one where the schoolyard talk is whose father grossed $8 million on his last picture.

My family is everything. I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.

My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father.

My parents, especially my father, discussed the question of my brothers' education as a matter of real importance. My education and that of my sister were scarcely discussed at all.

Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.

That boy don't know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades, and that boy don't know the meaning of a lot of words.

Let us teach the young in the school of the fear of the Lord.