Quotes About Education

You save money so your kids can go to college - no matter what they are or who they are. They're your kids; you gotta support them.

I think we all realize that anyone can - and has - gotten AIDS. So there's obviously still a lot to be done.

I read a lot of books to my children, and they all seem really good. I think people have gotten really good at children's books.

I'm clear that new schools should only go in areas where there is a need for places. I'm equally clear that we need those schools to have the governance and the leadership to succeed.

An educated people can be easily governed.

Headteachers and governing bodies run schools and that won't change.

It's very easy for people to say what's wrong with education in Arizona, but if I'm elected as governor, I want to focus on what we're doing well and maximizing the impact of what we know is working.

As governor, I'll work to ensure that every Virginian who wants good-paying work has the skills to fill these new collar jobs.

Serving others has always been a passion. Lurleen Wallace helped me develop that passion over when she was running for governor and I was a student at Auburn.

I knew school was stupid since the fifth grade.

I was home schooled starting in seventh grade.

I was a class clown since second grade.

I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle.

In fourth grade, I was interested in all areas of science. I particularly loved learning about how the earth was created.

I went back to school for the end of eighth grade and for all of high school, which was awesome.

At the fourth grade level, girls at the same percentages of boys say they're interested in careers in engineering or math or astrophysics, but by eighth grade that has dropped precipitously.

When I was in grade school, my teachers decided I was just about the dumbest thing to come through the door in a long time. Whatever the lesson, whatever the subject, I would sit and listen to them with a lost, glassy-eyed expression on my face.

I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.

By seventh grade, I was committed to mathematics.

I started playing drums in the 4th grade.

I only finished first grade.

I loved school. But when I started 'Party of Five' in the fifth grade, I was taken out of school and tutored on the set.

If children are reading well by the 3rd or 4th grade then everything else works.

In fourth grade I had a high school reading level, but I didn't want to go to school and I didn't feel I belonged there.