Quotes About Education

I know in my state, I am leading innovation and we need to diversify the economy. But you can't have innovation unless you have education.

During my engineering days, I learnt to value diversity, not to take shortcuts in life.

I have always felt that it's a little artificial to divide the sciences and the arts on college campuses.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

I have been expelled from five different schools when I was a kid. And I learned basically all what I do by myself.

I went to art school for four years to learn a very expensive lesson - that there are many other artists who are way better than me.

We should be trying to make education less expensive, not more.

I have a daughter in college myself. It's an expensive thing.

I learn a lot from my experiences and collaborations. Most of my collaborations are meant for me to learn.

In China, literally in elementary school, we have to sit a certain way. You can't raise your hand anytime, you can't speak in class. So it takes a lot of courage and experimenting to kind of try to break that.

I have to study, study, and study because I have to learn everything. Everyone expects me to be an expert on everything.

I am by no means an expert in basketball.

It's amazing how one introductory course in environmental science can turn a 20-year-old into an Biofuels expert.

You must write to the people's expertise.

By allowing many adult learners to retrain and upskill throughout their careers, colleges provide expertise for key sectors.

In a democracy, a leader must be the head teacher, someone eager to respond to doubts and questions and explain the need for and the benefits of a new course.

In very simple language, Morrie always seems to be able to explain something that other people would take a chapter for, you know.

It was a huge confidence builder to stand in front of 34 21-year-olds and explain something to them every day.

I'm the 'Dear Abby' of math problems. But if you understand something, shouldn't you be able to explain it? Isn't that the whole point?

I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school.

I tried to go to college in the U.K. a couple of times, but at that point, I think I was a little disillusioned with education. It wasn't giving me what I wanted it to. I needed freedom to create and do the things that I wanted to explore, and it wasn't really doing that: it was still very prescriptive.

I don't think there are any students who should not be exposed to a basic financial literacy course.

We know that reading to children is a crucial step. From the beginning, babies who are read to are exposed to the cadence of language, and school-age children who read at home for 15 minutes a day are exposed to millions of words.

I think it's extremely important that children are exposed to reading.