Education Quotes (18224 Quotes)

It is an amazing discovery and it's the coelacanth of rodents. It's the first time in the study of mammals that scientists have found a living fossil of a group that's thought to be extinct for roughly 11 million years. That's quite a gap. Previous mammal

Schools Superintendent Richard Kaplan said that help was on the way. We are working with the Police Department in terms of the changes in the routes and getting a handle on the amount of crossing guards we have and what additional shifting needs to be done, ... We're also looking at the cost of adding additional crossing guards at school expense.

I was off the whole night. It was probably one of my worst games I ever played in college.

Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.

You didn't hear the angels singing. It was brought down to Mother Earth, which is where it should be. And that led me to a lot of other reading.

He's a teacher, and you have to show your pupils that you care. He'll be a great teacher because of his experience.

I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.

Learning is a livelihood.

Whatever career you may choose for yourself - doctor, lawyer, teacher - let me propose an avocation to be pursued along with it. Become a dedicated fighter for civil rights. Make it a central part of your life. It will make you a better doctor, a better lawyer, a better teacher. It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring from love and selflessly helping your fellow man. Make a career of humanity.Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights.You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.

he never had sex in high school. That's why he likes character actors and actresses who look like him.

In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.

There was a tsunami and there are terrible natural disasters, all of this because of too little Torah study.

I was just lazy. I saw college just as a necessary step toward law school, which I couldn't wait for.

I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.'

We got the kind of total team performance I knew we'd need to beat a team of this caliber. ... To come out and get a win in one the best environments in college baseball, that says a lot about our team right now. We need to work hard to finish a series if we want to get to the next level. But I'll go home happy this weekend.

I am going to be running with the teachers and the farmers and the bus drivers and the hard working men and women of this country. I'm going to be running with the people, not the privileged.

I believe some of those schools could take some of the kids away from the outlying schools, ... Because of the growth, it's inevitable that the boundaries are going to have to be adjusted. That or build.

I just told them, 'You're down 34-0 at the half. We got a fumble recovered in the end zone and didn't play well. You can lay down and get run over or you can step up and play hard'. We challenged them. The defense didn't give up any points. They played harder. They're starting to learn. Jackson was where we are, last year. They're getting better. We want to be there next year.

Public schools are largely secular institutions. I would expect my kids in science class to be instructed in those things that are somewhat quantifiable and based on thorough and rigorous empirical research.

The current auditorium is appalling. This goes to the fundamental of what schools are about. You cant pull out potential in the current facilities. You can teach music, but you have to have a place to apply it.

You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances.

There would not be enough talent that's educated, developed and ready to take on the next leadership challenge, and it would cap our growth. Now we've put programs in place not to have that happen, but that could be a weakness.

Freedom can occur only through education.

The situation exists in almost every well-known Chinese university.

There's very definitely a learning curve, ... I made it work because I absolutely had no choice.

We were shocked with the findings. This is not just a matter of education anymore, it's about installing policies to help protect our children.

Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

The ink of a scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

She's a solid goalie who's been playing really well. When we played (Mankato) in college, she was the backbone of their team. She really helped them out and saved a lot of games or made close ones out of others that would've been blowouts.

If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is an American dream was because at key points in our history we made very bold decisions about making sure that there was very broad, universal access to quality education.

I told all the teachers to come down, and any members of the community that want to. A teacher mentioned (the idea of a rally) to me. I thought it would be a good idea. It just kind of spontaneously happened. Some parents have helped to organize it as well.

The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College.

The last thing in the world that the people of California need is to spend 70 million to 100 million on a recall election that could be used for schools, hospitals, to hire police officers and firemen. What we ought to do is put an end to this -- end this circus, and send Republicans a clear message on recall day.

We saw firsthand the terrible suffering that they had endured. We protected a hospital and kept a school safe from sniper fire. We saw hope in the faces of Iraqi children who may have the chance to grow up as free as our own.

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.

She wanted to go to college. She understood what she wanted to do and understood what it took to play at the next level, and was willing to put in the time to be that good.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

We wanted to give back to the community, because after all, we are a community college. We want students to attend but also the general public. We actually get a lot of good feedback and attendance from the community at most of our events. But we want to raise even more awareness.

Coach (Dungy) does a great job installing his defense and communicating how he wants us to play, ... There's a lot of teaching and emphasis on the little things.

Preliminary indications from the school indicate (the student) probably said it in passing, as an off-hand joke. But you don't just joke around about things like that. Of all the times in the world to make a joke about bombing a school, this was clearly not the time.

We knew the alumni of Atlanta High School were loyal to the high school and the community, but the donations were above and beyond what we expected. We got anything from less than 5 to over 100, and every bit mattered.

This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old.

While I was in high school, I started working professionally and got an agent.

My mother raised me in the church. I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday; there was no option. I sang in the choir all the way up until I went to college.

Howard is still a great school. But many of the great faculty members that would be at Howard today are now at Harvard and Yale and Princeton. All this comes as a consequence of affirmative action and the admissions policies that encouraged blacks to enroll in the Ivy League schools.

My kids are now the most popular kids in their school.

But a lot of it has to do with the money. When the small group trying to close the school had supporters in JFAQ (Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee), it seemed like the money never really came in. It seemed like it all went to Boise.

Many people have been fed up with judges for many years and for many different reasons, such as prayer in school, abortion, and capital punishment.

You have to compete every time you walk on the field. You want to get better, no matter how long you have played. I don't care how many years you play, the game of football you always have to be learning.