Quotes About Education

I wanted to quit school, and get an agent. My parents wouldn't let me. They wanted me to have an another option, to get a degree under my belt.

The benefit of rich families putting their child through Harvard is always going to exist. But it's quite evident that there are 700 million peasants in China who are never going to go to Harvard.

I have quite good general knowledge and I had a very drilled education from an early age. I do know more than most people. I know more than most journalists. I know more than most columnists on big, important newspapers.

I didn't have the opportunity to finish college and I was quite sad about that.

My parents have mellowed quite a bit, but, growing up, there was a sense that the only real professions were doctor, engineer, lawyer. Those were your choices.

I did direct quite a bit when I was in school, and I directed some television afterwards.

If you keep telling girls they're less good at science, that will probably be self-fulfilling. But there are quite a lot of women who are good at it.

I knew quite a lot about politics before I went to Parliament.

After Newport, I worked in television for a while, and then I went to The Royal College Of Art and did a master's degree. I really did study quite a lot!

All the things that you would have thought would have made me a professional A1 criminal... wrong. I decided that was too lazy and easy, and because of the way British society is, quite frankly you were denied an education, so I got one of my own.

Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.

I am from Jammu, but I studied in Chandigarh in sports quota.

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw's plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.

I eventually just imagined being a little boy who was quote unquote 'normal': who could learn like all the kids around me that I felt excluded from. And I imagined myself into one of these and into someone who could read.

So basically my, my foundation does this thing called gap coverage for, you know, students that apply for our scholarship program. What it means, it's not like quote, unquote 'full scholarship.' They apply for financial aid and, and FAFSA and things like that. Then whatever's not covered, my foundation covers.

I learned early on that 'rabbi' means teacher, not priest.

I was thinking very carefully about going into education, becoming a teacher, maybe becoming a rabbi.

I am a longtime, rabid fan of Jonathan Kozol.

I always learn something from every race.

Democracy has betrayed the race, because education has not served man as was expected.

Home to some of our nation's civil rights leaders, Harvard Law is not a bigoted hub of racism but a place where men and women of all races peacefully co-exist in pursuit of higher education.

You still need a good balance of what we do away from racing, and I feel like school, for me, has been that balance.

Going to car racing school was phenomenal.