Education Quotes (18224 Quotes)

Live to learn, learn to live, then teach others.

It was a message sent out to the university community tied around the White Ribbon Campaign and the Take Back the Night events, talking in general about relationship abuse and what forms that relationship abuse can take place and what resources are available on campus.

I'm not sure why we are having a debate on a 1,600-student high school. A 1,200-student high school is better for kids.

You've got to learn how to read the ball, learn the pursuit angles, and learn which base to throw to.

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.

A community reading garden brings people together and improves the environment. Gardens can be an enriching, stress-free zone. When the garden is devoted to reading, it adds the benefit of encouraging a love of books and learning.

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

Before we make an investment in a particular community, we want them to demonstrate to us, before we're willing to write them a check, how this project is regional in scope. Show us that this isn't just a project for this community, that this supports a regional strategy. Do you have the private sector at the table Do you have regional institutions at the table, such as institutions of higher learning Do you have economic development initiatives, work force initiatives ...

It was the first time all year we had to play with him out of the lineup and for us it was an adjustment and a learning experience.

I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they're doing. I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that's handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers.

When students graduate from college, the first rule of thumb is to create a budget and stick to it. Be sure to make your student loan payments on time, every time.

My sister works in an inner-city school in Greenville, South Carolina, and she brought many of her at-risk kids to our show yesterday to the sound-check. It was amazing how these kids opened up with music. Music teaches so much about focus and concentration and group dynamics and appreciation for subtlety and beauty. And that's being taken away from schools.

I graduated from Yale in 1969, from the University of Florida Law School in 1974, and passed the Colorado bar and was admitted in 1975.

It explains Scott was helping to rebuild a deck at a home for battered women and noticed that an approximate 22 year old young man was staring at him. It was Scott's claim that he had tutored this young man as a child at St. Vincent de Paul Center for Homeless Children when he was in high school.

Clearly there are individuals who don't understand what the church teaches, or they think it's so limiting.

It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing.

In another week or two, we won't be admitting anyone unless it's an extreme case. I just think it's not going to benefit students no matter how desperate they are for education.

Does an event like this encourage use Every college in the U. S. struggles with student use of drugs and alcohol. But this is a group of students who feel really strongly about the issue and want conversation about it and to raise awareness about it. We have to encourage and provide a forum for the discussion that's what higher education is all about.

If you're going to have a public subsidy to education, vouchers are clearly a better way of delivering it. They should result in some loosening up and privatization of the government school system.

This is just the FEMA relief part, this is not the whole picture, ... We fully expect the U.S. Department of Education to pay for the costs of educating the thousands of new students Texas is going to have in public schools. That is the request we have in to the federal government.

The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned.

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.

The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn.

When possessed of wealth or learning, Low people become proud. But even when doubly honored, The wise become more humble.

They're just imagining that our principals are going to be standing at the schoolhouse door the first day of school, telling kids they can't come to school.

In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school.

That's the age when classes start to become departmentalized and this could be the first manifestation of learning differences, because now the child is going from class to class. You may be looking at a time management or organizational problem rather than a problem with the subject matter.

We've been rated pretty low before, and I don't get caught up in them. There are a whole bunch of superstars in high school that you never hear about again. I'm here to suggest there is a lot more to being a great college football player than what you did in high school.

I've always seen historical interpretation as a learning experience, just as much as high school teaching. It's an engaging way to explain history to people.

The national average is just over 15,000. I'd like to know why this school is costing so much.

It wasn't until 10 years later that I found out he made the Pro Bowl but didn't go because of school. I was upset, I would have liked going to Hawaii.

When kids move around a lot their grades suffer. Studies show when a student moves three or more times during elementary, they fall over a year behind in reading scores. In eighth grade, they're four times more likely to drop out of school.

Obviously, they've got Jason Kidd, who opens up the court so much, Vince Carter on one wing and Richard Jefferson on the other wing. That's a tough task. We've got to play great team defense, learn from each other and see what happens after that.

You know, I went to Oberlin. At that time, grades were - you elected to have them or not. It was all of that era where grades were out the window. But I did very well in school. I didn't really study the arts; I practiced the arts.

Atmospheric testing was a dark period in our history for many Americans and questions about long-term cancer risks are unanswered. We should do whatever we can to preserve the limited records from that time so that they'll be available for scientific study.

The study examines scenarios of less than full trade liberalization as well as full liberalization. In its less than full liberalization scenarios, the Carnegie study finds some developing countries may suffer net welfare losses. One reason welfare benefits are not larger is the gains from trade liberalization in services are not measured in this study. Also, the static rather than dynamic model in this study limits the measurement of net welfare gains because it does not include estimates of the economic growth effects of trade liberalization.

The Kansas board should be applauded for its courage in raising the bar for quality science education,

For me the schools are the best. They are my favorite part. We have some opportunities to spend some time with the kids. I like when they start asking questions.

The board of control would decide their feeder system, and that would be spelled out. Certainly anyone could attend their school, but not for athletic purposes.

We extended the event into May this year so more schools could participate after the FCAT test time, and students do get community service hours. It's all about getting people aware that litter is a problem and that there is something we can do about it and get involved with yearly.

I'm thinking back on all the years we were here and all the fun things we did. The school has improved, and we had remodeling back in February of 2001. Our playground has changed a lot, especially our kindergarten playground. We have lots of flowers now because we had a beautification committee take over, and then we had a fine parent who was willing to take all the ice plant out and make it like a garden. It's truly a garden. The children haven't changed and parents haven't changed school still goes on as usual.

The declining impact of education on our adult population was the biggest surprise for us, and we just don't have a good explanation. It may be that institutions have not yet figured out how to teach a whole generation of students who learned to read on the computer and who watch more TV. It's a different kind of literacy.

ASUM wants legislators to realize that by investing money into the University of Missouri, they are investing in a brighter future for the state of Missouri.

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.

I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn.

I was running since I was 10. Since grade one at school people looked at me and thought, oh gosh she can really run, she's a natural.

Though Rome's gross yoke Drops off, no more to be endured, Her teaching is not so obscured By errors and perversities, That no truth shines athwart the lies.

Given the current priest sex abuse situation in the Catholic Church, we find it offensive and horrifying that any Catholic university would want to allow a performance that portrays something similar to the current sex abuse scandal as something good for the victim.

Playing for Coach Lauro really made you feel prepared for college. That's a scary feeling when you're a 17-year-old kid leaving New Castle to go to Virginia Tech, but you just knew you were prepared because he worked you so hard you were going to survive that.

A vibrant book festival with internationally renowned authors helps to inspire children and fosters a love of reading. When children and young adults have the opportunity to interact with authors, it's just magical