Quotes About Education

I read just endlessly, ceaselessly, almost every book, it seems!

The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past.

I never knew about racial segregation until Martin Luther King.

I've never said that you should have segregation of the school system or any other.

College was just so essential for my sense of self and my development.

I don't honestly have the time or energy to support anybody else's cause but my own, which is self-expression. So I guess, if I had a cause, it would be education.

Like every other self-respecting academic, I'm distrustful of self-help books.

You know, I grew up very self-taught.

Almost everything I've been paid to do was something that was largely self-taught.

I wanted to experience college and to travel for my selfish reasons.

Education is like the pooja ghar for us. We are never going to become a for-profit player in education. It will be akin to selling the pooja ghar.

My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.

It was a really long process, dropping out of college. I was there for a semester, then I would take a semester off and go on tour, then I would go back for a semester.

I went into the seminary when I was 16.

I have had a very fun, positive experience in seminary. It's taught me a lot.

I would never send my kids to a single-sex school.

I made a different decision to send my children to the local state school.

If you can't send your daughter to school when you know it will help her, you feel a sense of failure, and you feel that failure deeply.

We knew we had the resources to send our kids to whatever school was best for them.

My senior year of high school, I probably wouldn't get so much out of it as if I went to college.

I have a country-boy sense of humor. I come from a poor family, and I have no education. But I am Middle America, and what makes me laugh is what makes them laugh.

Homeschooling has always been at the back of my mind, because whenever I am with the boys and we are out in different environments their senses heighten and their enthusiasm to learn is at its best.

Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.

Sensitivity training is a fine idea but isn't taken seriously by those who need it most.