Education Quotes
We didn't feel so good when we took our son to college and saw a sign on the liquor store - Back to School Sale.
I went to a high school that was so dangerous the school newspaper had an obituary column.
"Do you think your boy will forget all he learned in college?" "I hope so. He can't make a living drinking."
Boy handing over his report card: Of course I seem stupid to my teachers . . . they're all college graduates.
Graduation Speech: You'll have to excuse me if I cry. I've been a little teary-eyed all week the sadness the joy . . . the fact that I'm off my parents' payroll.
Education commences at the mother's knee and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character.
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
My mom said once that education was a privilege not afforded to everyone, but she was wrong--it wasn't a privilege. It was our right. We had the right to a future.
You must be a starter and a finisher, the slogan “press on” has solved a lot of problem.
The most essential step in marketing your services is selecting an occupation you can throw yourself into wholeheartedly.
She was an autocrat, didn't really believe in democracy. The benefit of her approach was that, if you work with twenty people and ask everybody's opinion, you would never achieve what she did.
In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement.
I believe e-courses will eventually change people's attitude toward learning. Education will play an increasingly dominant role in people's lives. For people of all ages and all geographies.
The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.
The laissez-faire attitude to science education has resulted in a disaster exemplified by the fact that more young people are opting for media studies than physics.
We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.
My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.
Democracy is interactive... It's a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.
Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the most important thing in their lives. They must find the right balance.
The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.
Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.
Only one in five children in the U.S. lives within walking distance of a park. Many more lack access to a quality early childhood education that provides ample time and space to play.
The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to be self-taught.
I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.
I think African Americans are resilient and hustlers by nature. I think they need to understand that you can take that hustle to the boardroom, but it has to be an education process.
Fine arts education in public schools is really abysmal. The same emphasis should be put on music, theater, dance - anything creative - that's put on math and science.
Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future.
We are really battling, today in the U.S., keeping science education in the forefront at the elementary level, and that's where the research shows that kids get interested.
Kim Il Sung University is the central base for training national cadres and the highest institute of Juche-based science and education.
I will venture to maintain that where the teacher is not pleasing to the pupil, there is no education.
I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.
My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.
By continuing to increase teacher recruitment and training - and ameliorating wages and working conditions - we will be able to shore up the weaknesses of the French education system.
I always wanted to be a teacher. I went to school to be a teacher. And I've always, you know, had this sort of romantic idea about it. But I'm worried about - I'm worried about education.
The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.
The Clinton strength was to play to people without a college education. High school people. That's how you win elections.
We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.
Today it is time for every child to have a right to life, right to freedom, right to health, right to education, safety, the right to dignity, right to equality, and right to peace.
If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.