Quotes About Education

Why do men outperform women on the SAT? The SAT's supposed to predict college grades. Women do better in high school and they do better in college. What's the problem here? Ah, the more you use, the more you start accepting that the SAT's coachable, the more problems you have with it.

With sad, depressing predictability, the children of today's underclass become tomorrow's criminals and dropouts.

Each year when the A-level results come out, thousands of students and their families settle down to deal with the implications - positive or otherwise - of the fact that their actual grades differ from those they had predicted by their schools.

Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we've made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true.

I prefer home school because you learn more by yourself than when you're around other people because you get distracted.

We learn our sexual preferences and orientations.

I loved 'Beakman's World' growing up. As much as I loved 'Bill Nye,' I always preferred 'Beakman's World' because I thought it was funnier.

I preferred sewing to bossing little children.

We must begin to shift the emphasis of teen-age pregnancy to teen-age boys.

It's amazing how much misinformation there is about pregnancy and how many myths are still ingrained into our culture.

My mom got pregnant when she was 15. She dropped out of high school. She died in her forties, but before she died, she went back and finished high school.

No parent wants their child to get an infection or get pregnant before they're ready.

I graduated law school nine months pregnant and didn't take a job.

At one point in my life, I wanted to do a master's degree in Irish literature, but I ended up getting pregnant instead.

I never went to college. I was pregnant at 23.

When I was pregnant with Alijah, little Hank would have all these questions. Where do babies come from? So I was open with him.

Sports help women stay in school longer and make them less likely to use drugs, break the law, or get pregnant at an early age.

I was pregnant when I left school, so I needed income support. I didn't even have functional skills, not even GSCEs in English and Maths, so I needed to go back to college.

At 16, out of school and pregnant, my own life could have been written off. It was the help I had from some of the then Labour government's policies such as Sure Start that turned it around.

If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

So long as classical education and classical prejudices prevailed, educated Englishmen inevitably saw ancient Britain as an alien land.

Even then, Vanderbilt was the premiere place for clinical pharmacology.

Academies place a high premium on local community engagement.