Education Quotes (18224 Quotes)

An entire generation is growing up without parents, without teachers, without a future.

We hate surf schools. Basically, surf schools bring so many people to the lineup that it becomes hazardous.

Everything at this level comes and goes. There are going to be a lot of bad days and good days until midseason. If there are fundamental problems, we try to address those. A lot of guys who have played high school ball have to get used to the ebbs and flows of college ball.

Absolutely, it was a good decision. I had a great year, my favorite year in college. I got to come back and restore my legacy at Oklahoma, got to right the wrong that happened, and at the end of the day I probably made myself a lot of money.

I was born in 1948. That year, Linda was the most popular girl's name. Actually from 1945 to 1954, it was the most popular name for girls, according to Social Security statistics. There were so many of us when we were kids, in school classrooms there was Linda after Linda after Linda.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

A lot of people have a negative stereotype. We've had a big push in educating people to know what agriculture and natural science is.

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed.

I think Ole Miss is getting a great player and also a great individual. Jamison jumped in there and played well for us. I think he can play corner in college and cover those bigger receivers. He has great hips and moves well. He has good timing as far as playing the football.

We've had other developers donate land, . . . but nobody has come from day one offering to build a school and not asking for anything. You're the gold standard for developers who understand the community.

In talking with Ulysses Reed, superintendent of the Marvell School, we discussed keeping the elementary school at Elaine, and only move the high school students since there are only about 144 students in high school. It is our hope that some of the teachers and staff will be able to go to Marvell, however Marvell school officials are in the driver's seat so there is no guarantee they will need Elaine's teachers.

The combination of the anecdotal reports and the perceptions have led me to conclude that we need to perform a study to ... see if there are the adverse outcomes that some believe there might be.

There's no question he would have been a great offensive lineman. He would have been an All-American if he had wanted to play. Back in high school, he'd rag-doll those poor kids. Guys were so afraid they'd run over him that they'd just stand there and Glen would put a little move on them and shake them out of their shoes.

We went down tonight but we played for 32 minutes. You'd think that playing hard and competing is something that they should be able to do, but it's something that they've got to learn.

Virtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identified in society by their strict adherence to virtue, not by more skilled methods of escaping the consequences of vice.

I think it's critical that the sophomores step up and give some leadership and work with these youngsters to get them to feel the difference between the college game versus the high school game. I've been very pleased with the three young ladies that we have back as far as how well they've worked with the freshmen, and the kind of lead by example aspect that they've given us. Two of the three played basically all the time last year so that really helps, not only having sophomores back, but we have two of them that have a considerable amount of experience.

I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smaller schools to upgrade their technologies to take advantage of distance learning.

I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.

We took the ideas and invited the curators up to BC, each of them separately, to present their ideas to a group of faculty, ... felt, that at Boston College, it added to so many courses.

We're not going to be scared. We're going to be pumped. Nervousness is not a part of the University of Texas.

Coach Pitts takes those guys who were former fullbacks and skill position players and gives them their own identity. We have a history of good defensive linemen here. Kids realize they can get in school somewhere if they give it a try.

I grew up in New Hampshire and was proud to be an Olympian from the state. The message from the largest university in the state is that it doesn't support Olympic sports, and I can't really accept an award from a university that does such a thing.

Honestly, when Bill and I visit, we don't talk about football as much as we do about our families. He tells me about his three daughters, I tell him about my four daughters. We're both very proud of our daughters. We've both been married to our wives since college. What it shows to me is, even though this business can be difficult on families, we've got strong ones.

Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks.

We have tried very hard to be out in the community and do more public education. Anonymous is exactly what it means.

The education of the doctor which goes on after he has his degree is, after all, the most important part of his education.

Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school.

Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.

The News-Democrat put two kids through college. The money went into the bank and it paid for tuition and books.

We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.

I thought there was maybe a 2 percent chance that I was going to be able to come back. That's what the coaches told me. They said this had never happened with the NCAA. But the school took the chance and it worked out, and I'm the happiest person in the world.

It's great it keeps people from having to drive an hour to listen to good jazz. It's especially good for the kids. Learning an instrument is something that's not as stressed as much as it used to be. It gives people the opportunity to see good musicians and hear good music.

I didn't know much about vocations that were available, but I knew about teachers. Teachers at that time were highly respected in their communities, so I wanted to be a teacher.

The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.

We had a real good night. There were eight schools there and were by far the smallest - the only 1A school. I think now we're ready to run outside. We've been running pretty well inside and I think we'll be sharper than some teams that have only had one indoor meet.

The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.

It was a college basketball atmosphere tonight.

Fact, discipline, academic, structure, form and even learn are negative words, while approach, discover, feel, experience, impression and change are words of approbation.

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked.

Everyone knows that Tyler is a college level player offensively. But tonight he showed that he is defensively as well.

We shall say clearly that any symbol conspicuously displaying religious affiliation in school is prohibited.

We try to stay away from that kind of thing. A penalty like that could cost us the game. But he's young and he can learn.

I want to achieve greatness in high school, go to Georgetown or Villanova and get into the NBA soon.

I don't get his move. I don't understand the motive for that. I think he's made a mistake. I think he needed some ego restoration, probably. I'll tell you, he came into arguably the toughest conference in college football and I'll tell you, it's not going to be the same. I know the South Carolina fans are excited, but. . .

He's definitely had an impact on the way we defend because he is a great defender. He gives us a guy who can basically shut down people. He also does things you just can't teach. Every situation, he has great instinct and he has great physical ability.

I mean, if somebody said to me, junior year of college, you can go anywhere, your old man's paying for it, I'd have been gone in a flash. But I had to work. Every summer my mother would say, 'Get that job and hold on to it until August 30.'

I just kept studying it. And studying it. And studying it. Studying different teams. And the zone rules. I really got a lot done in four days. I looked at the All-Star break as a great opportunity, with no distractions to get in there and grow, so I can help these guys more. So if was fun for me.

She just loves school, ... She is a school person. She loves children and life. She is a very good example for the kids.

The county executive believes this legislative agenda will address the multi-tiered level of fraud that is very much at the root of the high tax problem. What he is trying to do is to make one business official accountable for a district's money and to treat budgets as if it were their own. The only remedy now is for communities to vote down a school budget, and that ultimately hurts the children. Seventy percent of our tax bill is made up of school district costs, and those rising costs are crippling those who live here and sending them to more affordable pastures. Those who are elected would now be accountable at the end of their term.