Quotes About Education

A flourishing higher education sector is critical to a nation's economy and culture.

We don't want cost to be a barrier to good students getting a higher education.

You see, I went to the sixth grade and that was the highest I ever went.

What college is all about is some kind of 4-year game about who is going to end up with the highest grades. And I don't mean to say that academic achievement isn't important. But it is, after all, a means to an end.

I used to like the word of the day and when I read, highlight words that I didn't know and look them up.

If you can attract highly educated people from other parts of the country and keep your own best and brightest, chances are the job creators are going to be successful.

English culture is highly literary-based.

The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate, and she had a college degree, but after my father left, she took the first secretarial job she could find and never looked for other employment again.

Parents tend to value their lives more highly than people without kids, but they're different in lots of ways: They're richer. They're better educated. They're healthier.

New York is a highly educated city. People who are educated generally go to college. People who go to college who are men love college football.

We had a segment called Tampon Tuesdays that I was very proud of; that was hilarious because there are a lot of women's issues out there that a lot of people don't know about because they're not women, and they don't have to go through them.

I lived on the top of one hill and the school was at the top of another hill. Nobody ever went to school by car - we didn't have any cars during the war. So that to and from school was itself a training.

Hillary Clinton wants to leave behind No Child Left Behind.

I thought my high school would either be like 'Beverly Hills 90210' or 'Stand and Deliver' - it was just a run-of-the-mill high school.

Don't ask me about Beverly Hills High School. Everybody hated it. I hated it. Hated it. Hated it. Hated it.

Hindi is far easier a language to pick up than Tamil.

I can read and write in Hindi.

I am mastering my Hindi.

The conservative attack on public education is being felt drastically in higher education

In a large range of cases, the failure of students to learn has mainly to do with a national economic failure and not with inadequate teachers or schools.

Wouldn't it be better if we could fix the potholes in the roads and the bridges that are crumbling? Or, wouldn't we all be better off if everybody with diseases and illnesses could be treated so that diseases and illnesses wouldn't spread? Or, wouldn't it be better if all kids were ready for school when they went to kindergarten?

Always pass on what you have learned. -Yoda

I was a bookworm then, but when I came to know it, I woke among the butterflies.

For repose is not the end of education; its end is a noble unrest, an ever renewed awaking from the dead, a ceaseless questioning of the past for the interpretation of the future, an urging on of the motions of life, which had better far be accelerated into fever, than retarded into lethargy.