Education Quotes (18224 Quotes)

J.P. played some first base in college. That helps a lot. We'll be able to get his bat in the lineup a little bit more. Now it's my job to find them enough time behind the plate to try to develop them, too.

Someone taught me how to eat properly. Learning from others is important when it's not working for yourself.

Virtually every university in the country has an alcohol problem. I am concerned about the problems we have with alcohol, but they are less troublesome than some of the Eastern schools I'm familiar with. Students at UW are a lot more focused on their education, I've found, and they are more responsive to authority figures.

When this opportunity was presented to me, it was just the perfect combination of taking my 30-plus years of experience and reconnecting to the heart and soul of public education the students, parents and teachers.

I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.

Learning without thought is labor lost and thought without learning is perilous.

The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.

The funds from the sale were put into research and general teaching budgets at the university. Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates, Inc., is now a growing enterprise with many model and other econometric facilities.

I really appreciated that the chancellor addressed all of those concerns. It's nice to see that administrators can admit they made a mistake and they're really working in the best interest of the university and the students.

It won't be perfect, and it will receive criticism, and rightly so, but if we don't address it, we won't be able to provide the education we need, ... We can't tax our way out of it.

I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training.

These are students who have a lot of potential but don't have people pushing them or showing them how to succeed. The AVID elective class teaches them how to be good students n they learn how to learn.

Let the master praise him, and say, "Here ye do well." For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

I really would like to fulfill my mom's dream of getting a college degree. It's still the same way I felt a couple of weeks ago when the season was over.

They were done praying and left the school at 925 a.m., ... At the same time, I walked out of that building. That's why my faith has been bolstered.

Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.

That's what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that's great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on.

Everybody's getting better, no matter what school you go to. People want to be good. People who probably got overlooked by other schools, you know, they take it as a challenge and they work their butt off.

There's been about a 50 percent increase (in cases of college meningitis) since the early 1990s. We're not exactly sure why it's increasing.

I think what makes it unique is the emphasis that is given by the program to the idea of the students as scholars. A lot of our curriculum is driven by student interest and by the interactions that students have with the faculty and staff.

There is no where else I would rather be than at Howard University.

Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.

They didn't realize until 1954's Brown v. Board of Education ruling that he had changed,

I kind of hit the ground running, ... I want to get as much out of college as I can, in terms of experience and understanding. I want to leave Hamilton with the tools I'm going to need to do other things.

They still think they're in college, and you can get away with those things then. We're not in college anymore, and we've got to take care of our bodies. I always went into it with the attitude that I need to go to work tomorrow.

It's really nice to see him mature and handle pressure and try to be a positive influence to everyone who is around him. I think he is getting there. That's the joy of teaching high school kids, seeing that maturity when you have seen them struggle in the past and then they get it together their senior year.

I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself.

My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to primary school together and we were like boy scouts.

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

These were two hard-working individuals and they poured their heart and soul into this program. They know that change is in the interests of the University of Texas.

I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school.

As we are teaching we are very respectful of their learning styles and their culture. They are more circular learners, learning a little bit of everything at once. We are more linear learners. We learn one thing completely and then move on to the next.

He is not only an immensely talented and versatile performer, but also someone who has given a great deal of himself to the university and especially to the vitality of the arts at Harvard,

Our focus and our only focus is on Boston College. We have to do battle one game at a time before we can do any celebrating.

You guys forget I was a pretty good basketball player. They offered me a college scholarship in that, too.

School Board member Colleen Moriarty, a former Youth Coordinating Board director and a McLaughlin supporter, said a mayoral School Board appointee might be helpful. She characterized Rybak's education approach as staying around the perimeter ... hands on.

Play is a very important part, ... Kindergarten education play is a way in which children learn. And children learn a lot of social skills through those things.

It was my first dunk in college. It was unbelievable. But for me, scoring is just a bonus. I couldn't care less, as long as we win.

Despite the perception that ideological and political attitudes make for deep divisions over such issues as sex education, we find just the opposite. The widespread support for sex education programs seems to be fueled by belief in their efficacy.

To live is not to learn, but to apply.

We have a tremendous opportunity in education.

There is that pressure from the administrators who ask the teachers 'Why is only 40 percent of your class passing' because they are under the gun, too. The blame game is what drains teachers because they are pedaling and not getting anywhere. There are all sorts of fingers pointing at you, then you eventually get a burned-out teacher and they will pass the students so they don't get ragged on.

The group heard today from a candidate who offered no concrete plans, no solutions to the education challenges that face Texas and no way to pay for the few ideas she put forward.

We have always felt that the fellowships in question were but a small part of an overall graduate program that provides opportunities for thousands of our students, from every imaginable cultural background, to pursue graduate degrees while working at Southern Illinois University.

Parents in communities where school districts are financially strained were promised that this law would close the achievement gap. Instead, their tax dollars are being used to cover unpaid bills sent from Washington for costly regulations that do not help improve education.

It's really flattering. It is weird, at school the whole day, just hearing people saying my name and hearing my own principal announcing it. It's a great feeling.

money received by school districts from vendors pursuant to vending concessions contracts and school picture contracts is school district money. The fact that money from these sources is deposited in a school activity fund does not change its character.

When people belong to something they make more of an attraction to the school. They take more pride in school and feel more at home.

To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability to visualize and guess.

My first year teaching, I had 57, if you could imagine, 57 students in the class and I guess the smallest class I taught was 18, a few years ago.