Quotes About Education

I didn't make the most of school, but boxing has given me discipline.

My dad was lackadaisical on the discipline front. I dropped out of everything at school.

It's hard to get an education when teachers spend 70 percent of their time trying to discipline students.

As much as I like teaching and students, it's a kind of rigor, a discipline, that's against my body.

Everybody's life matters. But that's why we have to say black lives matter, because the highest disproportionality, police brutality, disenfranchisement, education disproportionality in school discipline, curriculum, misrepresentation, all of this.

Until I read Neill's book, 'Summerhill,' I thought there were only two ways to bring up children, either with authoritarian discipline or with permissiveness. Either way, hopefully, applied with love. Now I know there is a third way: teaching a child self*regulation, not by coercion or by abandoning discipline, but by freedom with responsibility.

Most every dental school has discount dental services.

I did not discover literature of any kind until I was about eleven, or ten.

A big part of engaging kids in science is not getting the single, correct answer; it's being willing to work with students to discover the correct answer.

I never really excelled in any particular subject, but I was just alright at all of them. I never really knew what I wanted to do until I discovered drama.

I discovered Deborah Ellis's books in the school library after my head teacher encouraged me to go beyond the school curriculum and look for books I might enjoy.

No, I was going to college and got discovered.

When I was 12, I went to boarding school, where I discovered the computer, which meant I no longer had to write something down and get someone to play it, I could just type it into the computer and hear it back.

I discovered reading through libraries. I grew up in a house that wasn't brimming with books.

When I was about ten, I discovered evolution by reading a book by Wilhelm Boelsche and seeing a picture of Archaeopteryx.

I like discovering stories where I'm laughing and I'm learning. It's like, 'How was I never taught that in school?'

I actually love the Discovery Channel.

Many people may automatically associate breast cancer with women only, but that is a huge misconception because this disease does not discriminate.

Every child in America deserves to be in a safe environment that is free from discrimination.

It wasn't until I got to Cambridge that I discovered active discrimination against women.

Kids under, I'd say, 14 are still maturing; they are still growing. They are still understanding themselves. To hit them with something like 'Roots,' to hit them with this particular period of time, it's important to discuss the matters beyond the program itself.

I want to write about serious things, but I want to write about them in a way that makes them accessible to a large number of people - to take them through the argument by dramatizing the circumstances in which these issues are being discussed.

A university is supposed to be a place where all ideas are discussed.

The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.