Quotes About Education

I didn't have much of a formal education myself.

To articulate the ideas in your head, you need formal education, so you study music theory to do that. And that's the only responsibility that you have - to make that process work for you and express yourself. In this life, nothing is more important.

I am neither a lawyer nor a tax expert, in fact my formal education ended when I finished high school.

Most of my formative years were in Chandigarh.

One of the things I wanted to do in the Department for Education was open up the policy making process and run things like wikis in open formats in order to a: start off with better ideas and then b: adapt to errors much faster than is possible with normal Whitehall systems.

As a former college president, I am well aware that every university is a complicated ecosystem, not a linear widget factory.

It's one thing to make financial aid available to students so they can attend college. It's another thing to design forms that students can actually fill out.

School boards can be a steppingstone to higher forms of political leadership.

I probably didn't put forth the effort I should have put forth, didn't realize the value of education until I went to college.

We had library books in our house, but not our own. So you had 14 days to read them. There would be eight books a fortnight in our house and I'd read as many of those as I could.

Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.

I started working when I was very young. I got an agent when I was 12, and fortunately was employed consistently from that point on. So I didn't really go to a conventional high school. I was tutored on sets and things.

We live in Palo Alto, which has, fortunately, one of the greatest school districts in the country.

Even if I make a fortune in films, I want to have a diploma so I don't finish life as a little clerk.

Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she is still doing the same thing.

Physical development fosters learning.

University should foster imagination and creativity, enriching society in the process.

We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.

I was on the board of Andre Agassi's foundation, and seeing the way it operated blew my mind. In 2002, I told my wife, I want to start a foundation to give back, I want it to be for kids in hard circumstances, and I want it to be culinary-driven, because that's who I am.

We have a foundation, the Soledad O'Brien Starfish Foundation. We send girls to and through college. We started-off saying we send girls to college, but to do so is not enough. Seeing them through college is the key.

Teaching is a respectful job. Teachers lay the foundation for society.

My parents lovingly passed down the lessons of their lives so that my sister, Jana, and I may also teach our children the foundational principles of a life well lived. There was something else my father passed on, quite unintentionally, I'm sure: learning disabilities. My father is dyslexic, and so am I.

I founded DonorsChoose.org because I care about learning, and I believe every student in our country deserves a great education.