Quotes About Education

My father started me out on the flute and I began going to teachers.

I've learned a lot on the fly, and I think, actually, my academic and management consulting background has enabled me to quickly pick up on a lot of disciplines.

Really, anyone can learn how to fly. If you can drive a bus, you can fly an airplane.

We've read scripts, and I think right now we are just focusing in on school.

I wasn't always interested in technology. I had been a student for a long time - I'd earned a bachelor's degree, a law degree, and an MBA - and decided that I wanted to work in a large corporation, focusing on finance and law, in either New York or Chicago.

I'm not really into politics, but if I had my own country, I would make sure all my people were educated and figuring out what they love to do, and focusing on that.

The U.N. has been focusing on the global goals in terms of trying to fight and eradicate poverty, and I feel like education is at the root of it all.

Academically I was never that great and I was not really into school. I don't know, I just really had a problem focusing but singing always came naturally.

John Edwards comes from working folk, just like me. John Edwards worked hard and excelled to get his education, just like me.

I was a pretty delinquent little kid. My folks and I didn't get along, so I basically moved out... put myself through high school and then college by working. I'm only a half-year short of a degree in history.

I don't know how racists live with their racism. We need to take the road of love. I don't think folks are born that way; it's learned and taught out of fear.

My dad was in the restaurant business, but I didn't really think about following him. Had I done better at school, I don't know if I would have been a chef.

I'm a good learner. I am fond of reading and educating myself all the time.

Being an educated consumer is the best way to shop for nutritious, disease-preventing foods.

I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.

I can fool people that I was educated.

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

As a young boy, I did a lot of foolish things. I made a lot of mistakes. And you live and learn.

We are the worst of fools if we do not teach every child to become truly expert, deep readers.

When I was 17, I went to Brigham Young University. That was the first time I had set foot in a classroom.

I definitely want to be known as an educated person as well as being a good football player.

I went to Brigham Young University on a football scholarship. I wasn't a football player; I was a place kicker.

My mother really wanted me to go to school and to university, but I was adamant that I wanted to be a football player.

I don't know what I would have done had I not become a footballer. I've always wanted to do that, even when my family would try to stop me playing football so that I went to school.