Quotes About Education

My mom was a high school science teacher for decades. She just never made it feel like we had to choose between the arts and the sciences. We had bookshelves full of novels, and she also had Rachel Carson and Aldo Leopold and Carl Sagan.

I was a mathematician by nature, and still am - I just knew I didn't want to be a mathematician. So I decided not to take any mathematics courses.

So I decided on science when I was in college.

After university, I taught in a sixth-form college in York for a year and a half before deciding to try acting.

If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.

As much as I've always dreamed of going to college, I have to think about whether it is the right decision for me.

The bottom line is we believe that parents are the best equipped to make choices for their children's schooling and education decisions.

I support parents making the best decisions for their kids' education.

Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools.

I have this deep love for authors. I think that we don't do enough to encourage love of words and love of books.

I don't get too political in my music, because some people tend to get bored with the message: I say what's necessary and leave it at that. The books of Malcolm X go deeper than any song. But entertainers can be educators. Music touches the soul. Knowledge touches the mind. When you combine the two, you capture the whole.

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.

In school and college, there have been instances where I wish I knew how to defend myself.

I learned how to defend myself at the OSB, not physically but with words.

Always, as a child, I would go around the house, and if I found a word that I didn't know the meaning of, I would write it down and ask my parents to define it and try to memorise it.

What I want to see in teacher training is more talk about character education and getting teachers to really think about it. We have been careful not to define what we mean by character but we think the best schools and the best teachers know how they build strong, resilient young people.

As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied.

And sex is definitely part of college life.

Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.

I didn't know about competition until I got to school. I didn't know how degrading it was to be graded until I got to school.

Before I ever got into coaching, I got my law degree at Pepperdine.

I got my degree in rhetoric.

I was getting a degree in accounting, and I was going to go off and account. And as it worked out, I haven't accounted for anything since.