Education Quotes (18224 Quotes)

I wasn't the most popular girl in school by any means.

The parents want to see some action by the school board.

One of the kids went home and told his parent that a classmate made something called napalm. The parent called the school today.

Tell me a private school that wont take somebody outside their parish. Jealousy is the greatest form of flattery and thats about it. Maybe this is being paranoid, but were a small town, and what irritates me is if (Mayo and Walker) went to a bigger, private school, wed be seeing headlines about how great this is.

One big problem is that in the summer, some schools shut off the air conditioning to save money, when it would be better to set it on 70, ... But when you turn the A off and the humidity gets out of control, once it's above 70 percent, it's all the mold needs to start growing.

I've always been interested in seeing the school systems progress. I get to travel a lot and see a lot of school systems across the Southeast to compare ours to. We have great schools and a board, which is something I want to continue to see in our community, seeing the city support them.

Whoever the kid had been, whoever had had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the law You just change your attitude now please, young man.

We want to foster that conversation between the parent and the teacher. They're the two experts. This would provide specifics for the conversation.

The township did a study of its own prior to opening station 2. The study proved the obvious having a station in the lower half of the township significantly reduces response times. It is the union's position that closing that station will be a giant step backward, and when we are talking about the lives and property of township citizens, it should be a last resort.

We've been on a very good ride. I think it just shows greater parity between the state Catholic schools.

Spiritual power is a force which history clearly teaches has been the greatest force in the development of men. Ye. we have been merely playing with it and never have really studied it as we have the physical forces. Some day people will learn that material things do not bring happiness, and are of little use in making people creative and powerful. Then the scientists of the world will turn their laboratories over to the study of spiritual forces which have hardly been scratched.

I can remember at college, living on 30-cent meals.

Using technology to educate is an incredibly effective tool that reaches kids on another level. Kids today live in a multimedia world and visual stimulation aids in the learning process. Talking about history is static but, with these movies, history comes to life.

What Makes Racial Diversity Work in Higher Education.

The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.

I love playing here, ... I played in a dome in college. I played inside in Arena Football. I've played in the dome here. I just love playing inside. It's my element. It's what I'm comfortable with. ... It was great to get back in here. If we play this way at home, we're going to be a very, very tough team to beat.

If there is anything education does not lack today it is critics.

What this country needs is more parents who do not expect the school and the church to assume the major responsibility for the rearing of their children.

I'm introduced today as Iowa State's wrestling coach because of the selfless sacrifices of my college coach, Bobby Douglas. I promise to work as hard as I did as a competitor to build upon the traditions I've inherited as head coach. Iowa State University is a special place to our family. I'm humbled and excited at the same time about my opportunity.

In order to judge of the inside of others, study your own for men in general are very much alike, and though one has one prevailing passion, and another has another, yet their operations are much the same and whatever engages or disgusts, pleases,

College graduation, high school proms, we're not recommending any be canceled. We just want to ensure that people are aware of the risk.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

I started doing stand-up in college.

It takes a great deal of work to raise all of the children, on each level. Education and upbringing plays a large role, but the most important thing is love and a big heart.

In many cases the family needs income so the student will drop out. Literature on this issue also shows that there is just not the emphasis among the immigrant population in education beyond the sixth grade level.

a brain-based type of learning disability that specifically impairs a person's ability to read. These individuals typically read at levels significantly lower than expected despite having normal intelligence.

It was a change coaching Chauncey because he's a scoring point guard. You know, I expect a lot from point guards in terms of getting everybody involved and being an extension of the coaching staff on the court ... We've both been kind of learning. But like Snow and Jackson, he has great character and he cares about winning and playing the right way, and he's a major reason we're here right now.

When I first saw the music, I was pretty scared. Wow, we're going to be playing this Then I thought, 'With hard work I can get this,' and I have. One piece, Beethoven's 'Egmont' overture, looks like one of the hardest pieces to learn. You're expecting it to be given to professionals to play, and we're playing it.

Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.

Even if the government had actual real-time data, it's two to three years old, ... School administrators need to know what is happening today and what to anticipate tomorrow, not outdated numbers from yesteryear.

I think that the school district did not make an adequate case for the new school.

It's going to be a learning curve. We've got to roll with the punches. We are going to get better and learn from our mistakes, but I think our offense is really sound and we have speed and power. We don't have a lot of flashy players, but we've got a lot of workhorses, and now they have to believe in their roles and stick to our plan.

I sang in church choir all my life, through elementary school, junior high and high school.

More than a quarter of U.S. schools did not make adequate yearly progress ... It is absolutely unconscionable for the president to demand that states pay for federally required programs without properly funding them. Since NCLB passed, we have been hearing horror stories from states desperately looking for money to meet requirements.

The problem is that the two sides didn't have enough sitting-down time to work out what are the needs of the charter schools and what space is open to them. If we have the Board of Education continuing to make decisions without the charter schools, this will continue to happen.

I have nothing against public school I don't have anything against private schools. I thought I was the best one to teach them.

We want to be able to make recommendations to the college on where they need to put recycling receptacles around the campus.

My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life, you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you're a kid, you can learn a language much more easily; I learned English in less than a year.

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.

I think there's a pretty good formula for guys who at some point in time were college coaches and then they go to the NFL and, in whatever capacity they serve, they develop even further. When they go back to college, they're even more prepared, and they succeed there.

I didn't figure out the makeup or cute hair or clothes until oh, maybe my junior year of high school.

It really broke him up. Those experiences have had a profound impact on me. It's just so striking what the university has done, is doing and will do for the people on an individual basis. To think that I will have a big role in helping to move this institution into the future is just awesome.

We are doing a kind of battle of the bands. There is always a need for instrument replacement and repair, so there is a need for money to be returned for those types of things. ... It is nice to see the interest of school bands and the effort that is put into getting a group together and getting them out there to perform on the street.

It's (McGovern's) goal to give kids in every school a meal a day and to combat malnutrition with education. It's really the key to getting these Third World countries out of the situation that they're in.

I myself have educated myself.

I learned more about elections on election night 2000 than I ever did during my 16 years of schooling.

I have had a great time in high school, and I'm going to miss it a lot. At the same time, I'm looking forward to the new challenges ahead. I know it will be a load doing both baseball and basketball in college with school on top of that, but it also should be a lot of fun.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

Really this game was learning patience and grace. The school we played Briarwood comes out game after game and never hangs their head. Our girls really understand that it doesn't matter if it was 102-8. Grace and mercy come into play, and that's what I love about coaching at this school is that the kids know that.

I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun.