Quotes About Education

Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.

I did not learn the flaws of the criminal-justice system in law school or college or by reading about it. I grew up knowing the flaws and how it was disproportionately impacting the black community. It's not academic for me.

I was reading at a third-grade level until the age of 30 before I made the decision that I was going to learn how to read.

If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.

Every successful business professional I know is constantly learning, reading, growing in their field.

I was fortunate to grow up in a middle-class home with two hardworking parents who enjoyed both reading and mathematics.

I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.

I enjoy reading books.

I went to something like six different schools before the age of 12, so I was always the new girl and had to make friends quickly. It was difficult at the start because I was very bookish - I was literally sat in the corner reading books, with no friends.

My books don't sell anymore. There are many reasons why they don't sell, but one of the reasons is because people don't read anymore. Forget about reading books of detail - they don't read at all.

I learned how to cook, began reading books on food. I began to understand about nutrition. It never had occurred to me that what you ate could affect how you felt. It could affect your health. It seems obvious now, but at age 23 or 22 or whatever I was, it wasn't obvious at all.

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

I'm always reading books.

If you say to teachers, how can we, with the resources we've got here, develop a policy on reading books, then within minutes, people have ideas, make plans, invent activities.

The great thing about small children is they're portable, so we take them everywhere, but when it comes to 2015, Zachary's going to school, and I want to be there to drop him off and pick him up. I don't want to just be the father who reads them a bedtime story.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

I don't claim to have all the answers; after all, I'm just a comedian who reads a lot.

I'm one of those freaky people that actually reads books.

My dad dropped out of school in middle school, but he reads five or six books a week, and my mom reads about two.

When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.

I know a lot of kids that if you don't know how to deal with them, you lose them. They don't come ready-made.

We all should be concerned if our kids don't know who Sandra Day O'Connor, John Adams, and Ronald Reagan are.

The first time I began to really think about politics was in fifth grade, during President Reagan's first term.

I would buy a house, and try to buy a house every month. I didn't have education or information about real estate at the time. I learned after I bought a few houses, and then I kind of fell in love with the rehabbing of the houses and fixing them up and just the whole process and turned it into a business.