Quotes About Education

In 1996, Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' was removed from classrooms after a school board passed a 'prohibition of alternative lifestyle instruction' act. Apparently, a young female character disguised as a boy was a danger to the youth of Merrimack, New Hampshire.

Both my parents were educators, so interviews and college applications and shaking hands and looking people in the eye and feeling confident and knowing what you can bring to any project or audition - I've known about these things my entire life.

It's very hard to juggle a science fair project as well as your schoolwork.

I already have a pet project called Project Shakti and it aims on educating women on menstruation cycle.

Also, I plan to screw something up on every movie I do so that I can learn from my mistakes and become a better director with each project.

Being in the Girl Scouts took me out of the projects environment and showed me different things.

I'm also working with Mrs. Bush on some education projects in Afghanistan, so I get to see her a great deal.

I feel that for the first time in a long time, educated Pakistanis are returning to their country to start up educational projects, to start up businesses, so instead of the brain-drain that happened in the 1950s and 1960s, the country is growing and improving economically.

I started with CB radio, ham radio, and eventually went into computers. And I was just fascinated with it. And back then, when I was in school, computer hacking was encouraged. It was an encouraged activity. In fact, I remember one of the projects my teacher gave me was writing a log-in simulator.

If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation.

I didn't go to prom - I was homeschooled.

The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.

You're supposed to go to prom during high school. I don't go to high school. I homeschool.

When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothing of that kind, immediately school enrollment jumps dramatically. Girls and boys get to the classroom with the promise of a good meal once a day.

Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.

Everyone from my high school and junior college are now doctors and lawyers. I came from that kind of environment, but I chose to go on another path, even though I did promise my parents that I would get a degree. After that, I could do anything I wanted; that was the deal.

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy.

We, as a society, will benefit from the interest young people show beginning at first, second, and third grades. As a result, there's great promise in the future.

I will never forget being in Akron the day the I Promise School opened its doors for the very first time. You could just feel the magnitude of that moment.

I remain committed to improving education in our state. The best way to fulfill this basic promise is a strong public educational system.

I have promised my mum that I am going to get a degree even if I turn 50.

They told me that, as a woman, I'd never get into graduate school in physics, so they got me a job as a secretary at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and promised that, if I were a good girl, I would take courses there.

Going back and getting my degree is something that I promised myself and my mom the day I called her and my dad to tell them that I was entering the draft. Not a lot of people in my family can say they got a college diploma, so I want to do that - for them and for me.