Quotes About Education

My daughter became a teacher right out of college.

I want to have daughter, and if I do, I want to make sure she learns ballet.

Would I put my daughter in a private all-girl school? No. Would I put her in a private co-ed school? Yes. Would I put her in the school I went to? No way.

I love Montclair. I loved it; it was great for my kids. I raised them all there, brought them up through the Montclair school system, and two of my daughters went to Montclair State.

Both my sons are dyslexic, and so, too, in a much milder form, is one of my daughters.

Amiri Baraka went to Howard. Lucille Clifton went to Howard. Ossie Davis went to Howard. And I was aware of that when I was there. Charles Drew went to Howard. Thurgood Marshall went to the law school. Being aware of that and having all of that brought to bear, again, it's one of those things that I can't really separate from my career as a writer.

Every day is a learning day.

I'm learning every day.

The sad thing in this day and age is kids have access to all sorts of horrible stuff on the Internet and they need to be taught the stuff about love and sex.

I'm very good at daydreaming. Ask any of my schoolteachers.

In the daytime, I was expected to be the straight-A student. I was expected to be college bound. I was expected to be a great big sister. And then at night, I was just a club kid.

I'm really excited to educate the world about what deaf people can do.

My kids both had acne, and I never saw a book dealing with the subject.

I went from a D student to the dean's list.

Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.

I didn't finish high school but I feel like if I was in college I could debate with anybody.

My wife and I often have debates about who studied in a better school and when I list KVM alumni, she kind of loses the argument.

I was the straight-A student but sort of a little bit of debating my parents all the time, trying to find when they weren't logically correct.

Rising student-loan debt is an economic emergency.

When we leave our kids with more student debt than necessary, we've failed them.

Think of the first Apple II being shipped in 1977. It took almost a decade for it to land in my school where I could see it.

The goal, I think, of American education, for decades, and across many, many scholars, was basically to teach people broad lessons in how to live life, how to engage life, how to essentially be effective citizens and effective people.

I was the first and only person in my family to go to university, and I spent two decades redesigning myself: even my voice is the product of elocution lessons.

That's where my heart has been for three decades is to really empower and allow all families the same kind of opportunities I've had for my kids.