Quotes About Education

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.

But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.

I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.

My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about is... my first reaction is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.

The tyranny of the ignoramuses is insurmountable and assured for all time.

Everyone thinks this way at some point. The important thing is to power through and get to learning. If you really don't have the time Let Me Handle Your Analytics.

Give yourself enough time to really learn how to cook.

Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it.

My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.

I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.

I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do in school, but I definitely didn't have adequate time to reach my full potential as a student.

I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in 1974. And I got my doctorate in 1975.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.

As far as music school goes, I walked through Berkelee one time.

We need teacher educators who regularly spend a great deal of time in classrooms so they have a deep understanding of where they students will teach.

We don't have much time, so we don't teach them; we acquaint them with things that they can learn.

I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it.

Now is the time to learn how to argue constructively before you have children.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory.

It takes a long time to become a lawyer because you need three things - a bachelor's degree, a law degree, and a desire to worship Satan.

English? Who needs to spend time learning that? I'm never going to England!

Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.

By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes.