Quotes About Education

After I finished my degree in India in 1980, I came to the U.S. to get a master's, and I was teaching quantum physics to freshmen. As I got my bearings as to what goes on in labs, I understood that to teach, you have to learn.

I want every kid to go to college and be like a normal student. I want them to be able to go to a movie, go to a concert. I want them to be able to have that opportunity. But if you're paying kids, are you going to pay a lineman less than you're paying a quarterback? I don't know how to explain that stuff.

I think when you look at the quarterback position, and this mastery of the craft we talk about, it really is an advanced degree. It's like going to med school, or law school, or getting your PH.D. It really is that type of educational effort, on the field and off the field.

In Queen Mary's, which was an all-girls' college, I learned discipline, hard work and to be competitive. But at Madras Film Institute, I learned about the world, being free and knowledgeable, and thinking beyond oneself.

I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.

My career got off to a very shaky start when I dropped out of school at the age of 18. Despite my lack of academic credentials, I got a job as a fashion assistant at 'Harper's & Queen.'

The notion of 'Queen's English' is usually applied to our pronunciation.

In Saudi Arabia, they always tell us we are queens. We are pistachios. You know the nut? Like something that is protected. So even if you have a very good education, restraints are put on women.

My parents spent a lot of money so I wouldn't sound like I came from Queens. I went to speech class.

The thing is, making movies as an actress, you learn so many things. Like when you're making a movie with Quentin Tarantino you're just at the best cinema school ever.

Let me put it this way: There is nothing in Islam that is fundamentally against the quest for knowledge.

It comes down to what your priorities are, and if public education is about kids, then every decision we make should be focused on the question of 'Is this good for a child?' And that should be the driving focus and the priority when we decide what our policies should be and what our laws should be.

We're committed to making sure parents have affordable, quality early learning for their kids - there's no question about it.

Every education law should be based around the question, 'Is this good for children?' And it's not.

I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it.

I think that at the end of the day correcting misinformation and questioning what we think we know as a habit of mind is incredibly important.

Questioning authority is, I think, a great thing to instill in children. I just didn't have enough of that when I was little.

I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, 'Is it? Why? Why is it like that?' Sometimes that questioning leads to something more.

Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.

You better arm yourselves to answer your children's and grandchildren's questions... no matter what the question is... without being judgmental.

For me, law school was a time of joy and hope. Joy in learning my way around the law - learning how to orbit a problem and to ask myself hard questions and to be asked hard questions. Hope that I could be of some use, to be part of the greater good - to make the world a little bit better.

Going online and asking questions is the best way to learn.

And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.

By looking at the questions the kids are asking, we learn the scope of what needs to be done.