Quotes About Education

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.

When I was a teenager, I thought if any of my friends or people at school see me reading a book, they're gonna think I'm weak. So I didn't even do it in private. Then I grew up, got into college, and the teachers turned me on to books, and I got hooked.

An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Presumptions of guilt or innocence may sometimes be strengthened or weakened by the place of birth and kind of education and associates a man has grown up with, and good character may at times interpose, and justly save, under suspicion, one who is accused of crime on slight circumstances.

The guest artists pass on not only their experiences but also the pitfalls.

I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.

Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.

Three components - education, equality and empowerment - play an important and pivotal role in moving the country forward in every aspect.

The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.

The emotions have been seen as the center of woman's soul. For that reason, emotional formation will have to be centrally placed in woman's formation.

I consciously learned and performed my race like a teacher's pet in an advanced placement course on black masculinity.

Museums are good things, places to look and absorb and learn.

You don't need a four-year college degree if you have burning ambition or a great plan.

I didn't really have a plan of attack when I got in college.

When you put more than a million kids in school, you take a plane today and go to Haiti, you cannot see the results. You will see the results in 30 years when you see a different type of Haitian.

Whenever you say you're a physicist, there's a certain fraction of people who immediately go, 'Oh, I hated physics in high school.' That's because of the terrible influence of high school physics. Because of it, most people think physics is all about inclined planes and force-vector diagrams.

As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet.

To say that what a planet is doesn't matter would be to imply that a planetary scientist couldn't explain to someone what the field is about.

There's planets, life in the universe. You don't talk about that in high school - or maybe I skipped class that day.

I'm an avid watcher of the Nat Geo channel, where I watch shows about how the planets are formed, and shows about moons, quasars, black holes.

I planned on being an English teacher, but I don't know where that went.

I happen to have a college education and I never planned on being a fighter.

I have school planned out in my mind, and I know it's going to work. My dad wants us to wake up every morning with intent. I know he's going to cry when I graduate.

When I was 16 and I wanted information about birth control, Planned Parenthood was the first and only place that I could think of going for my health care and education.