Quotes About Education

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

The pressure on kids is high to get good grades. In my time, no one cared about it. My father looked at them but he didn't really make much fuss about them.

School was great. There were no boys there, which didn't really bother me at the time because I had two brothers, so I was quite pleased not to spend any more time with boys.

My kids and I sometimes will just sit in my office and talk about what the world was like 68 million years ago. Amanda, our oldest daughter, wanted to be a paleontologist for a long time.

Unschooling is creating an environment in which children can learn easily and naturally all the time.

A lot of kids spent more time out of school than in, but I always loved school and thought it was my way out of Cleveland, and out of poverty.

I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway.

If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.

I teach kids how to be rich by the time they are age 40, 35 if they are extra bright. Most kids think they are extra bright, so they go for 35.

I'm having a seriously hard time getting used to the fact that summer is over and I have to get out of bed every morning to go to school.

All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.

There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.

In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

For the longest time I was afraid I'd have to keep on working at the factories. There was a steel mill and a pottery; if you didn't go to college, you went to work in those places.

Give away everything you know, one bite at a time.

The schools schedule is a series of units of time; the clock is king.

I decided that I didn't want to spend my time in a liberal arts college.

Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

Power-over is resorted to time without number because people will not wait for the slower process of education.

My parents tried so hard to do what they could to keep us in school, but school didn't last but four months out of the year and most of the time we didn't have clothes to wear.

I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior.

Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord.