education quotes

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Won’t it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

In ‚Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education‘ and ‚Why A Students Work for C Students,‘ I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‚studies‘ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‚studies‘ are about propaganda rather than serious education.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it’s just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function – that’s important, and fine, and I support it.

I am pro-education. I’m just anti the system.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

If you’re low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn’t seem entirely fair.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

The best teacher is very interactive.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, ‚cause I’m very smart.

Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that’s associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

That’s correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write.

I like school and I like learning.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

If you are giving a graduate course you don’t try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: ‚Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?‘

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn’t work like that… There’s a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.

When I first stopped going to high school, I was about 15, 16. It had to be, like, 2000, 2001.

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

One of my mentors schooled me on branding before it was a cliche term in the game.

A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they’ll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

I didn’t go to university. Didn’t even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.