Quotes About Education

I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8.

Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.

Read! Read all the time, the understanding will come by itself.

I used to do a lot of story writing and storytelling coming up through grade school. By the time I got to college, I decided that I wanted to perform as well, and that's where I started.

Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time was spent in his education, and knows nothing about letters at all.

Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.

Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do.

I joke around all the time, 'I'm Asian; I'm really good at math.'

Until a teacher learns to use elements like time, space, materials, groupings, and so forth flexibly, it's incredibly difficult to teach students as they need to be taught.

I didn't have time for talent shows and stuff like that. I was into books and studying real hard.

I have a degree in finance and these things kind of all go beyond me in a sense. I have a degree from a long time ago before computers.

Each time I hit a low point I learn the most. Failure is the best university.

I was having a hard time at school, in terms of being crap at everything, with no discernible talent.

Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down.

The more everybody knows about all aspects of the problems we face, the better off all of us will be. Less time spent explaining things means more time for coming up with creative solutions.

The idea of going back to college scares me, and I didn't even go. I went to college for one year, two semesters. If you add up the total time, I probably didn't even go one semester.

My friend Megan Holken is a nutritionist. I have spent some time at her home upstate in Sharon Springs, where she told me how to eat right and cook right.

Social media allows people to connect. So instead of reading about the Arab Spring, I can have students following along, in real-time, with what is happening.

Tm worried about my tests.

Book learning and accomplishment in the world mean nothing if you do not have compassion, Crispin.

Il mio insegnante (un uomo assai mediocre, ma pieno di buona volontà) consigliava mia madre di mandarmi all'estero a perfezionare la mia educazione musicale. Sapevo che vi avrei trovato difficile l'esistenza; ciononostante desideravo partire. Abbiamo tanti legami con luoghi dove abbiamo vissuto che ci sembra più facile, lasciandoli, lasciare noi stessi.

El verdadero lugar del nacimiento es aquel donde por primera vez nos miramos con una mirada inteligente; mis primeras patrias fueron los libros. Y, en menor grado, las escuelas.

La musique] L'enseigner aux enfants est une épreuve pénible, parce que la technique les détourne de l'âme. (p. 80)

Ugh. Don't even get me started. It's like teachers think we have nothing better to do with our lives than to come home and do more schoolwork.) [SirLeo] (It's coz they're old and have no lives and want to punish those who do.)