Quotes About Education

My mom was big on education, big on reading, so she was always pushing books on me: 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X,' like, 'Read these books.' And it was like, man, I'm learning stuff that I just can't get anywhere else.

My goal is to share information and to educate. But am I an activist? No, no, no. I don't believe in pushing things on people.

My mom could afford to put us in a Catholic school for grades one through seven, but not after that.

I'm not the candidate who puts his kids in private schools.

Children International is bringing a lot of hope to families who start out with nothing. They have nothing. Then Children International comes in, puts them in school, gets them what they need.

To have someone come and teach you the right way to play puts you on the right track when you're little.

I am most peremptorily of opinion against putting children extremely forward. If they desire it themselves, I would not balk them, for I love to attend to these unsophisticated indications. But otherwise, 'festina lente' is my maxim in education.

I was bored at school and bored in a lot of the kitchens. It seemed like all I was doing was putting things into saute pans.

But to this day - I'm very literate now, I love to read, I read constantly - words don't resonate the way they do to a person with a formal education. They're like a maze, a puzzle that has to be opened up.

There's a million things wrong with government that need to get fixed, but none of its ever going to get fixed unless we start educating our children better.

Bruce Liddington, who has died aged 70, was the most exotic creature in the Department for Education in the 2000s. In a land of fairly staid civil servants, Bruce had flair and the panache of a brilliant parakeet.

If you're confident, then it helps you live up to your potential, but if you believe because you went to a certain school it means you're entitled to have a particular career, you'll fall flat on your face eventually.

My first school is gone - turned into flats.

After I finished school I wanted to do a bunch of courses - art history in Florence, fashion in London and acting in Los Angeles. So I started with acting, and soon I knew this is it, this is what I need to do.

I did my undergrad at Florida State, got a Bachelor's, and then I got my Masters in Acting at NYU. So I've spent a lot of time in the classroom.

I was born in Massachusetts. I live in Stillwater. I went to school in Florida.

I went to a Catholic girls' school before we moved to Florida when I was 15.

When I was 16, my mother moved me out of Brooklyn and sent me to Florida to stay with my family for a little bit because I was being bad, not going to school and stuff.

I'm a collegiate All-American athlete and earned a master's degree in education from Florida State University.

My daughter is on academic scholarship at the University of Central Florida. I feel so blessed.

Kids flourish if we get them to school every day.

My parents believed in the American dream and the power of education, but didn't have the money to send me to college. I realized early on that I needed to go against the flow and be better than everyone else to support my family.

Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.

Digital fluency is about basic skills.