Quotes About Education

I went to prep school for one year in Arizona. It was called Orme.

I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: 'No, you don't.'

I went to a prep school in Chicago, and my dad and mom worked really hard - even though we lived in the ghetto - to get me to there. A lot of it had to do with 'Stand and Deliver' and 'Dead Poet's Society.' It does help you. It inspires you. It definitely did for me.

Kids from New York usually don't stay in New York anymore: they go to prep schools and all sorts of stuff nowadays. I'm just happy to be one of the guys in our league from New York, to represent.

I was 11 when I started Latin - not like boys, who start early at prep school. At 14, you had to choose whether to start Greek and drop German, but my mum made a fuss, and I took Latin, Greek, French, and German at O-level, which meant I didn't do much science.

I love St. John's Prep as a school. I like the people there, it's a great school.

I thought I was academically prepared for a major college, but I wasn't. Odessa gave me that preparation.

Desserts are my life - making them, eating them, and teaching others how to prepare them perfectly.

We need to prepare our kids for a 21st Century economy, and we're not doing it with our schools.

I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.

I'd like to help educate kids about the Major Leagues - what to anticipate, what to expect, what they'll need to do to prepare themselves.

It's really important to teach people how to get food, how to grow it, how to pick it, how to prepare it and what's safe to eat.

You need to prepare the child you have for the world that exists.

There should be more on television that uplifts people and shows them how to better prepare themselves for earning a living.

Drama school, you know, I own an acting school, Actor Prepares.

In America, we have 19th century school conditions and a curriculum that prepares our kids for the 1990s.

We need to encourage innovative ideas that give parents better alternatives to prepare children for higher education and for the jobs of the future.

When you think about the children, one of the things that I'm quite concerned about - and I've heard it expressed by others - is trying to find how we can build better accountability, work to provide a level of education that prepares our children for the future.

I always thought that a prep school was what some people went to after high school to prepare themselves for college.

Free educational materials will, at minimum, prepare more people for college and allow them to be more successful once they get there. Most students want credentials that employers respect, and free educational materials alone will not do this.

Education, school should prepare us not to morally judge everyone, but to be able to find our own truth in this world of various points of view.

We have to do everything we can to help students and adult learners to prepare for the careers of today as well as the careers of tomorrow.

I know I want to do something with kids and help them become better mentally, physically and emotionally. They're the future after we're gone. So we have to prepare kids to be adults.

I am most interested in the outcomes at schools and school districts and ensuring that all kids are prepared for college and a career in the 21st-century job market.