Quotes About Education

The graduates in their heavy robes looked as if the last beads of ignorance were being sweated out of them.

Do you have any books the faculty doesn't particularly recommend?

My advice to all parents is beat your children moderately and moderately often; and anything that Wm. Heard Kilpatrick & Jhn. Dewey say do, don't do Ã¢â'¬Â¦

The girl had taken the Ph.D. in philosophy and this left Mrs. Hopewell at a complete loss. You could say, "My daughter is a nurse," or "My daughter is a school teacher," or even, "My daughter is a chemical engineer." You could not say, "My daughter is a philosopher." That was something that had ended with the Greeks and Romans

Comme l'on serait savant si l'on connaissait bien seulement cinq à six livres. ( How wise one might be if one knew thoroughly only some half of a dozen books

I was always the one in my family that was into make-up and I was always the one teaching my family and friends.

I remember famous people coming in to speak to me when I was in school and being inspired by them.

I'm a massive fan of the dictionary.

I like building and making things. I, perhaps, would like to try my hand at directing one day. Sometimes I fancy myself as an architect - but I think I might need to go back to school for that.

I never read a single book as a child. I did not read as a child. I worked on the farm. I had books in the classroom, but that was it. I never read a single book outside of the classroom.

I am very active in the co-operative movement. I am very active in agro-industrial growth. I am taking up the issues of the farmers of India. I am active in the field of education.

I am a learner and always learning. I want to push myself to the farthest limits.

My mother had been a Latin teacher, and she was always very fascinated with words. She and I shared books and responded to them.

We read to our kids at bedtime because we want to have literacy, but what are we doing to make sure kids are equally fascinated by science?

The debate about who decides what gets taught is fascinating, albeit excruciating for those who have to defend the schools against bunkum.

It's fascinating to learn math and science and engineering.

I remember as a child of five or six lying in the bath marvelling at the different languages displayed on the shampoo bottles around me. From that moment on it was always words not numbers that held a fascination for me.

Growing up, I wanted to be a fashion designer, which I'm still in school for. Like, that's what I want to be: a fashion designer.

Claude Kirk could be hysterically funny and fearlessly bold, and he championed the environment, education, and diversity long before those issues were fashionable.

By magnifying and analyzing your missteps, you learn faster.

I think kid actors may grow up faster, with the responsibility of having to do school work, learn all lines.

It's not just about telling your kids what food is good for you, its about actually saying to them you're doing this because... or if you eat this before you go to football later it'll help you run even faster.

Kids are mean. But because kids are so mean, it made me learn English faster. I think it took me six-eight months to learn English.

People's fates in life are decided largely by their schools.