Quotes About Education

I was home-schooled my entire life and never been in a classroom.

I want to help establish opportunities for at-risk kids to have the same opportunities in and outside of the classroom as everyone else.

A classroom setting for me was an audience.

I was the only kid reading guitar magazines at the back of the classroom.

My parents never ceased to struggle, but in witnessing their lives, I learned more about natural industry and leadership than in any classroom.

I took care of business in the classroom and on the field.

I think that education is something - it takes place in the classroom. It's all up to that teacher. We should be respecting and rewarding teachers.

We need to keep our kids and teachers in the classroom.

We recognize that violence is a learned behavior. One of the best classrooms for learning violence is in the home.

As a lifelong educator and as part of a military family, the way we reach out to military children in our classrooms has been especially close to my heart.

Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air.

I don't know marketing... clearly in engineering school you don't get much marketing training.

The point of doing TV is not to prove how clever you are, but to make other people realise how clever they are; and I think it's the same with books.

Many of you have been reared on the cliche that the purpose of education isn't to stuff your head with facts but to teach you how to think. Wrong.

My mother sent me to art classes at the age of 11. I began to have kids around me say, 'Will you make drawings for me? Will you make a painting for me?' And it really clicked.

Everything I ever wanted to know I just ask a search engine and there's the answer. So the least I can do for my clients is share what I've learned.

Amy Carter, Chelsea Clinton and the Obama girls all had to change schools.

We need to encourage girls, while they are at school, to know that no career path is closed to them, and to take pride in having ambitions.

We have to go and show these people what classical music is. We say sometimes that classical music has a small audience, but it's because people don't have the chance to be closer to it.

I was taught about slavery, but it was the ancient Egyptians. That's the closest I got to African history.

I feel I have learnt a lot on the sets of 'Beyond The Clouds,' and it will be a life-long learning for me.

When I used to say I did dressage, I got blank looks. No one had a clue what I was on about.

There are many people who do not know if the U.S. Army has 60,000 men or 6 million. They do not have a clue about that.

People associate girls with long blonde hair with the girls in 'Clueless' or 'Legally Blonde.' You can't be smart and educated and have an opinion because you are supposed to be stupid.