Quotes About Education

I can't imagine how many kids around the world will look at pictures of Pluto and think, 'I want to grow up to be a scientist.'

Growing up on a farm, I saw that if I didn't go to the military or go to school, and I knew my mom and my family wasn't going to be able to send me to school out of their pocket, so it basically came down to athletics. I knew I didn't want to work on a farm. I knew I didn't want to do manual labor the rest of my life.

The thing is 3,900 out of 4,000 college basketball players are very happy to have a scholarship. They're happy. They've got a $70,000 scholarship and they've got money in their pocket. It's the other hundred guys and they're all going to make money playing basketball and the top guys are going to make a lot of money.

I don't want people in China to have deep pockets but shallow minds.

A bunch of chairs lined up in front of a podium equals school.

I was actually a poetry major in college before I punted and decided to become a theater major. I wrote the poem that we put on the sauerkraut boxes in the style of Elling.

When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.

I first came across 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' in college, with other anthologized poems by Yeats.

It's difficult to learn poems off by heart that don't rhyme.

I had been writing poems and stories since I learned to make letters. I had placed poems in a hardcover anthology at the age of 6. And I knew more big words than anyone else in the 10th grade.

I've been interested in LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka's work for quite a while. My first introduction to LeRoi Jones was when my mother used to read me the 'Dead Lecturer' poems when I was a kid.

The headmaster asked to read one of my poems at some celebration or other when I was about 10. When I look back, that is phenomenal encouragement.

You litter poems with too much learning when you're younger.

Even when I was in school, I was doing papers and writing poems; I always had an edge to my delivery. It was never conscious, but it was more so my organic way of thinking about things.

I was an English major, and I always wrote poems.

They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet.

You know, one of my favorite movies that inspired me and got me started was 'Dead Poet's Society.'

To be a poet is as serious, long-term and natural as the effort to be the best human you can be. To express something well is not a question of having a top-class education and understanding poetic forms: rather, it's a question of paying attention.

I used to do poetry in elementary school. I used to just write.

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.

My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it.

I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.