Education Quotes (18224 Quotes)

It's certainly not making things any easier. It's heartbreaking for the athletes and the university and I'm just greatly saddened by the news.

I played against Andre in college. He's tall (6-3), but I'm not worried about the height. There are a lot of guys in the NFL that are taller than me. I am probably one of the shortest (5-10). I'll work through that.

Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.

The last week before the ball we study Cinderella and the students spend a little time each day traveling around the school trying the glass slipper on teachers looking for the real princess. At the ball, the students are thrilled when Prince Charming arrives and the glass slipper fits the true Cinderella.

I'd get done with school, go to baseball practice, go to volleyball practice and then go do my homework and go to bed. It was fun, though.

It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know.

Both schools are working with me, but I have to take care of things at Tucker first. Once the day is over, I can go to St. Christopher's. It's not ideal, but it's workable for a year.

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

I had done theater at school and really enjoyed it. I got a whiff of that sense of excitement that goes with it when I did school plays.

The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

We have some of these teams that are made up entirely of professors. We have two teams that are made up almost entirely of high school teachers. We had a team that was all police and court workers. It's a time to get together with your friends and that's typically the people that you work with so we have these weird little bunches of people.

Every young girl should have the opportunity of learning out-of-doors by first-hand observation, the wonders and loveliness nature has spread so lavishly-and how it grows.

There was some sloppiness, ... There were a lot of corrections on film study. I wouldn't say that we didn't miss a beat. It's not the same with those guys Jackson and Engram out.

Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals.

I think this will serve as a bridge so more high school students will get a taste of college, ... It's our shared goal to increase the post-secondary education rate in Fayette County.

It is no longer about promises of aid tomorrow, it is about signing up today to concrete actions starting now to deliver for every child in the world the chance of education.

This reduces diversity it does not increase it. A choice is being eliminated the choice to attend a small, intimate art school.

I live here in Seymour and my daughter and I are very active in our church. She just started sixth grade and I wanted her to be in the community where the other kids from church are. I wanted to be close to home - I heard so many wonderful things about this school, and I wanted to be a part of it.

To look is one thing, to see what you look at is another, to understand what you see is a third, to learn from what you understand is still something else, but to act on what you learn is all that really matters How do I act

However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute.

I think charter schools certainly have proven that there are some wonderful things they have to offer. I'll follow anything if the kids are going to learn.

Personally, I do not feel that the issue of sexual assault and rape on university campuses ever receives the amount of attention it deserves. So it is really important there are events like Take Back the Night to bring attention to such an important issue.

Teach our girls that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help that the world needs and is already asking for their trained, efficient forces.

The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got into it in college, but I had no interest really in that, in getting up in front of anybody.

In my life so far, I have discovered that there are really only two kinds of people those who are for you, and those who are against you. Learn to recognize them, for they are often and easily mistaken for each other.

At the pro level, the mission is to win. At the college level, it's to experience success within the context of an educational environment. I don't have a problem going with a pro guy, but they need to understand the context under which they're operating.

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

Given the startling data that 7 12-percent of school-age children will at some point be diagnosed with ADHD you have to look at why the numbers are as high as they are, ... One needs to be extra careful about the criteria used in the new study. A child with ADHD has to be impaired in more than one setting and they didn't have data to show that.

We're now up over 50 percent of the schools (are wired for Internet access), from 3 percent, and over 80 percent of the classrooms, from 14 percent, since 1994.

Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

After the war, I returned to Minnesota, from which I soon moved to Brown University, and a year later, to Columbia University where I remained from 1947 until 1958.

We're combining the best practices of the business world to the world of education.

A couple of years ago we made sure we had the right groupings, because the University culture changes.

Mary Baldwin was a good transition experience to university life, I think. We had a special orientation for us PEG students. And we had to take courses in math and history and such to make up for what we missed in high school.

We've always partnered with the schools. They are the anchors of the community.

As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum.

I wanted to be a nun. I saw nuns as superstars.... When I was growing up I went to a Catholic school, and the nuns, to me, were these superhuman, beautiful, fantastic people.

Some people asked me if it was going to be a downer to come back and play on a college team after playing on a world championship team, and I don't think they understand what it is like to play here.

During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.

If a school wants our financial aid office to speak to their students about how to fill out the application or any other concerns about financial aid, they can contact us and we can set up a day and time for them to come out.

I'm hoping he's going to respond in the correct manner, and so far he has. I've always thought of every moment as a teaching moment. Unfortunately, sometimes teaching moments have to come in some adverse situations and circumstances.

Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present.

A lot of the students are very limited in their backgrounds. It's very encouraging for these people to come in and tell them they can get into college.

All you really need to know about this junk data study is that it was done by the same people who oppose the idea of the minimum wage. And we see now how wrong they were. Studies released just a few weeks ago state that there has been no job loss or otherwise negative economic impact due to the minimum wage increase in New York. Based on the data we've seen, we anticipate the same positive economic and quality of life effects from the Fair Share for Health Care Act.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Bio-Colossus is great because it mirrors the attitude of the university itself our feet are on the ground but our head and our ideas are in the clouds.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

My name recognition is high, we've got a great grassroots organization in place, and I think the people of Maryland are ready for someone who's going to give safe streets and good schools, and a growing economy.