Quotes About Education

Comics are a particularly esoteric field where you really learn how to do it, by doing it or by learning from other practitioners.

Comics have always helped people to read. A lot of people learned to read by reading the comics. And it's our livelihood, after all. If people don't know how to read, they're not reading our comics.

That's my achievement actually - when a mother says that she didn't marry off her 14-year-old daughter because of me, or when a woman tells me that she continued to study after watching my dramas - those comments mean a lot.

Ed Balls keeps saying that we are committed to scrapping the EMA. I have never said this. We won't.

I'm not stupid. I mean, I didn't go to college but I've got a lot of common sense.

The arts really matter in education. Sometimes the arts are the only way a student is unlocked. Sometimes it's the only way a student can communicate.

The point of college is more to acquire skills than to acquire domain knowledge. One of the skills that is going to be most necessary: you have to be able to read with rigor and write with clarity. You have to be able to communicate. To make an argument, whether it's in a written piece or in front of a group of people.

I hope I could spend the rest of my life learning and communicating.

We have to teach girls communication skills.

I was actually a communications major and had never done design.

Scientists are not necessarily the best communicators.

I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.

There aren't always, especially in low-income communities, the arts and the dance and the drama and the things that can really show a kid, 'Look, even if I'm three years behind in math, there's something I'm good at that can help me be successful in life.'

Being the only African American at this level in American Ballet Theater, I feel like people are looking at me, and it's my responsibility for me to do whatever I can to provide these opportunities in communities to be able to educate them.

It's time to return our education policy back to local communities.

We want our communities to know what real food is.

I went to Duke, which is... a Top Five school. Not community college. But whatever.

When students come to the community college, they're focused. They know what they want to do, and they have a certain amount of time to do it.

I spent a lot of time alone; I left school to be tutored. So, most of my companions were animals. It's as simple as that. I knew more animals than I did people.

I wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman.

This nation has been drifting back in comparison with the rest of the world for the last 20 years in education.

By Year 11, I was a shell of myself. My mum was a teacher in my school, so she could see that I was dimming my light there in comparison to who I was at home.

I think it's all about people loving each other and having compassion, accepting one another and educating themselves.

If we're going to compete in this century, we have to compete on the basis of how smart we are.