Quotes About Education

Russian is a really hard language - but I've got my own personal teacher. He's been really patient.

We can learn something from every single medical interaction. Every case, every patient has a lesson to teach us.

If we are going to keep patients safe, then we have to make sure that doctors are able to learn from mistakes.

I want to help AIDS patients.

If you don't integrate the technology in a way that's actually fun, the kids don't stay with the play pattern.

People will pay more to be entertained than educated.

Kids are no longer interested in reading comic books; they've got television and the electronic games that they can bury themselves in like ostriches. They don't have to pay attention to what's going on in the world around them.

I knew nothing of American History because I didn't pay attention to American History in school. Because I did not see myself in American History in school.

It's absolutely true we have to pay attention to whether low-income people of any race are able to access quality, higher education.

To people I know in the bottom income brackets, living paycheck to paycheck, the Gig Economy has been old news for years. What's new is the way it's hit the demographic that used to assume that a college degree from an elite school was the passport to job security.

The Internet's impact is immense. My students can't imagine ever paying for a book.

Some of the things I think I learned from that were very educational as far as just paying bills - the basics in dealing with a restaurant like that. It was just life - the education involved in running the organization, even on a small level.

When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.

I was quite naughty at school. I was always in the back of the class messing about with the Bunsen burner rather than paying attention.

I was really not into school. Everything was distracting to me. I would have a beat in my head or a song. I was always not paying attention, just daydreaming.

College, by far, was the best time of my life. Just being able to go there right now and not worry about paying bills and all that and just having fun.

My father was Catholic, and my mother wanted me to go to Catholic school. That's what I did in first grade. But she couldn't afford the payments. I think it must have hurt her a lot, not to be able to give me a Catholic education.

Investing in better-quality education outcomes - especially in maths and science - more than pays for itself.

Kids are incredibly expensive. But it pays off later when they are better educated, bigger, and better-looking than you. And find you incessantly boring and uncool.

Countries need to invest in their most important asset - their own people - and it pays to start early.

Ignorance is a menace to peace.

When you come to Denmark, you have the chance to live in a free, peaceful country with access to free education, free medical aid and the opportunity to work. To benefit from that requires responsibility. If you don't assume that responsibility, it is a breach in trust.

My family moved to Aspen, Colorado, where we had 'Avalanche Danger' days that kept us from going to school, climbed 14,000-foot peaks as part of my education, and I learned to snowboard.

Whatever happens to science in schools, there's something peculiar going on if students don't see it as creative.