Quotes About Education

Child care is very important, so I want to put dollars there, and I want to make sure we get the policies right.

I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.

If scientists can't communicate with the public, with policy makers, with one another, the future is going to be held back. We're not going to have the future that we could have.

I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.

We need to make sure that our policymakers and politicians realize that we are the future of the country, not only by words. We should ask them to invest the right resources for every school, every hospital and every community.

I'm a big proponent of mandatory computer science education. I think the first step is educating policymakers that technology is changing the way that we live and work, and it's happening so fast.

At different times my children went to Polish, British, and American schools, and they learned about 'the nation' in all of them.

I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I don't get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.

I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrote children's stories. She was polite about the science fiction and fantasy that I kept handing in, but she finally asked in exasperation, 'Can't you write anything normal?'

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

Once citadels of free expression and occasional revolutionary ideas, today many American colleges have endorsed political correctness.

What is the role of an academic - no matter what they're teaching - within political debate? It has to be that they make issues more complicated. The role of the academic is to make everything less simple.

But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about.

Addressing politics in my music' is such a phrase, a sentence on paper, that I hate. That's not really me because at the end of the day, I wasn't a political science major and I wasn't educated in that sense so I hate when people talk about things they don't know anything about.

I was in school for a little bit at Rutgers for political science, but it was very loose.

When my mother finally arrived in America in the late 1960s, she attended Swarthmore College and majored in political science.

I had to be - I was in school for probably three or four years before I began taking courses in history and political science, and I just started to realize how big the world was. I mean, when I arrived in college, I didn't know anything.

Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English.

I'm not a big fan of journalism schools, except those that are organized around a liberal arts education. Have an understanding of history, economics and political science - and then learn to write.

It was my dream to come to Oxford and study political science.

I was a political science major in college because that's where my head was.

I went to college and majored in political science.

I went to college for political science and got a bartending job.

I never took a political science course.