Quotes About Education

Education is there to help our children negotiate the world and understand the communities they're a part of. We owe it to them to provide them with the best information we can to live their lives happily, safely, and without discrimination.

Quite simply, I owe everything to Jean-Luc. He taught me everything I know about films, about books, about art, about life.

I realized that a lot of people in my family had sacrificed for me to have the opportunity to go to a place like Duke. I owed it to them to finish. I graduated with a 3.6.

My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school.

Where I live, there are a lot of businesses owned by Ethiopians and Eritreans. They're the new immigrants, the new Greeks - what my people did. The next generation of these people will probably be college graduates. That's how it works, right there in front of your eyes.

My parents and friends, they're Ph.D.s that worked as custodians, that owned their own businesses, that went bankrupt, that moved seven times, that sent their kid to Harvard, that don't have any money for retirement. Highs and lows of life.

Depending on where you're at or the ownership you're working for, some of the college jobs may be better than some in the NFL.

I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939.

I did really well at school, and I would have loved to have gone to Oxford or Cambridge. I would have read English, and I'm really interested in politics.

My education started with Latin taught at home by a governess, I can't imagine why, and for some reason I attended the Infants Department of the Oxford High School for Girls before moving to the Dragon School at the dangerous age of 8 or so.

I went to study at Oxford University in the 1980s on an imperial scholarship instituted by Cecil Rhodes.

At the age of 14, I moved across town to Magdalen College School, Oxford, where science played a much larger role in the curriculum.

I had a great time at Oxford, got a wonderful, wonderful education there.

You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'

The Rhodes is something I've always really wanted. I would never have applied for it if I didn't really want to go. The opportunity to study at Oxford is amazing.

I wish I'd gone to university. I had the opportunity to go to Oxford but by then I'd already started as a comedian.

How clever am I? I'm really quite clever. I mean, look, I've got a first-class degree from Oxford.

I'm encouraging kids to use computers at their own pace to build aspirations.

I really feel like if they'd have let me just pace in the back of the classroom while the teacher was talking, I'd have done much better. I have to move. But you know, that's disruptive for the class, and as a result, there was a ripple effect of having to sit still that found its way into every aspect of my life.

Kids are coming online and connecting at a pace that's faster than their physical maturation process. Would you ever imagine that you'd have to talk to your kid about phishing before you're talking to him about the birds and the bees?

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.

It was a long time before I understood what the word 'specific' was. I remember being a kid and thinking it was 'pacific,' and being like, 'Can you be more pacific?' And I believed that for maybe five, six years until someone was like, 'It's 'specific.''

What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.

When I took admission in a medical college, I found that apart from the lack of education, what stopped girls from menstrual management was a limited access to sanitary pads.