Quotes About Education

I went to Princeton High School when I was very serious about being an artist.

Princeton ignited my intellectual curiosity and introduced me to a new social world. It... challenged me on the most fundamental levels imaginable. It was where I became a man.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952.

I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.

I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.

For better or worse, the people who become leaders and decision makers in politics, law and business are going to come from schools like Princeton.

Princeton was really hard. I had learned how to write well at boarding school, and I knew if I majored in English and I just did the work, I could get B's.

In 1992, when I was 16, I moved to the United States to start working on my Ph.D. at Princeton University in New Jersey.

I went to Illinois. Most people think I went to Princeton or something. But I was never a diligent student.

A Princeton education sets you up for life: you have learned how to learn, and at a time when technology has changed everything, you will constantly have to learn.

I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus.

You know I went to the Hunt Schools, a boarding school in Princeton, and I've heard so many Rhodes scholars have gone to the Ivys.

I think the principal purpose of education is to allow each of us, when we become adults, to shape our own future.

I've had a lot of people tell me they wish I were their principal.

I wasn't that over-the-top, but I got sent to the principal in first grade for talking. And my father was for a long time the president of the Board of Education. That was always a hard note to bring home.

Both parents were teachers. My father became an assistant principal, and he was responsible for discipline at the school. So I didn't get away with much at home.

Growing up, I always said I would never go in to education. Both of my parents were teachers - my dad was also a principal and a superintendent. I just didn't want to be part of the school system.

School grades can help determine how well a principal or school leader is doing, and yeah, you need to have some way to evaluate schools.

I always thought I would probably be a high school coach and a principal and then a superintendent. Then it got way off track and it got into college.

My father, Subhash Chandra Arora, was the Principal at the ABJ School, and my mother was the headmistress.

I love working with teachers and principals; they are my heroes. They are very dedicated to children, and it's very impactful.

Education and health were always matters of charity. You educated children and you helped the sick because they were good things to do, not because you were going to make money out of them. If you let the money-making principle, the profit-seeking motive, anywhere near education and health, things go bad.

I think there should be a major cut in the power of government to interfere in the day-to-day running of our schools. I want this because our guiding principle is that schools run schools best.