Quotes About Education

I did badly in high school. I don't know why, but I failed all my exams. Then I took them again.

I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.

When I went to do law, I kind of drifted through that and thought, 'I can pass these exams.' And I didn't - I failed three times, and each time I did worse and failed by a bigger margin. And that taught me so much.

Mum was on benefits for a few years. Then I failed the 11-plus and I went to the secondary modern. And that was hard because the expectations were so low in the school.

I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.

Failing to continue to support the public higher-ed system in California will have devastating long-term consequences.

I do worry that we're failing in a whole bunch of fundamental ways to distinguish for our kids between needs and wants. And we're failing to distinguish between production and consumption.

I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure.

The failures that we have are sometimes expensive educations.

To give every child a fair chance to succeed, we need to give them the best possible start in life. For far too many that isn't happening.

Do things fairly, especially with your children. Girls deserve equal opportunities, especially in getting educated as well as equal sharing in business.

I've lived all over Europe, spent a lot of time in London, went to school in Scotland, college in America, so I do think I have sort of a sensibility on a fairly global level.

I had never attended high school, but I was fairly well read.

I'm read in the Caribbean with justice, with fairness. What I expect it to do is to encourage articulacy in the young.

Kids deserve to be taken seriously. It's just as important to talk to them about women's equality, about fairness. We really have to focus on children early.

Myself, I have a philosophy degree and a fake computer-science degree. I say fake because I really didn't learn anything.

American sci-fi has fallen into the doldrums in part because of the anti-science sentiment that's so prevalent in our culture lately.

Going through the Chagrin Falls school system, I always thought I was going off to art school.

I need something to fall back on if fame doesn't work. I'll have to become an economist or something.

You help families focus on the future through their children.

I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school.

At 17, I went to Stanford University to study engineering. My time was occupied with the required reading and the extracurricular duties of managing the baseball and football teams and earning my way.

When we had segregated schools and when we had a time when, you know, girls weren't allowed to have the same kind of sports teams - I mean, there have been important inflection points for the federal government to get involved in some of the areas around protecting students and ensuring safe environments for them - there is a role to play.

Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.