Education Quotes (18224 Quotes)

I was thrilled that the school system would choose to honor her in this way. She was the embodiment of Dr. King's legacy. She was all about her children and family and if they can continue to follow her example, they'll be very successful in their lives.

If you've got 300 sexual offenders, for example, who are out on bail or some other kind of condition, that's a small price to pay to ensure that those individuals are not near a school, not near vulnerable children.

I think that would take a toll on the kids, asking them to get out of school early that much. Dealing with that many make up games would have made it difficult to keep up with their work.

New York City's public schools didn't get that much attention. Or else maybe he would have gotten the 23 billion the state owes us for education, ... And all he had to do was make one more trip to get it to Albany.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.

The irony is that I was a single mother, and I raised five kids by myself and put myself through school. I bought my first house in 1999 -- that was a very big deal for me -- and now I have to sell it, only because they won't hire Americans. It's devastating.

My parents were both very supportive of the idea of my being an artist. I had trouble in school, and I think they wanted me to feel good about myself and feel special, so when I exhibited interest in magic, they would help me do magic shows, and puppets,

Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaint.

The existing traffic did not justify a signal at the time, but with the school opening up we feel it will probably be needed.

The most important thing is to get children stabilized and get them into schools.

I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.

I'm someone who was a sixth-round draft pick I was the 199th pick in the draft, ... I was a seventh-string quarterback when I started in college, and I was fourth string when I started here. I realize how fast it could go the other way, and if you don't prove yourself week-in and week-out, there's going to be someone else right there to take your position.

There is a very short reference at the end of the audio -- if it lasts 30 seconds, I'd be surprised -- that invites students to come to the event after school hours. They make clear that it is voluntary, and they say it is faith-based. They were clear about that.

He who laughs most, learns best.

By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.

Without the proximity of the schools, it's hard for rivalries. When we play a key game at Cherry Creek, we don't travel well, and when they play up here, they don't travel well. If we were playing someone like Monarch, my guess is it would be packed.

We think there are birth rates that are going to affect schools, and there are people willing to build inside the city. We will continue with plans to deal with expected growth in the student population.

And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God this is it. So you never can tell. I could find something this afternoon.

The Central Valley, particularly the San Joaquin Valley, receive high numbers of first-generation Mexican immigrants with low levels of education. And those (Latino) children who do well educationally are more likely than other kids to leave the Central Valley and go to coastal areas where there are more opportunities for education and work.

We're very excited about it. It's a unique and wonderful opportunity to raise funds for the school district.

My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System.

I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days.

The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind.

We want to make sure that people realize that, if they are interested in going to law school, this is the place to come so that we can answer whatever questions they might have, regardless of race.

We want to show how the university feels and show how the students feel and see how much of that is really true.

We are making a bold run at engaging the tens of millions of young children in India around important educational messages to begin them on a lifelong love of learning.

We have been a district that looks to technology as a tool to facilitate learning and teaching. In this case, DIBELS may save our teachers time with regards to scoring and record-keeping, thereby allowing them to spend more time focusing on instruction.

I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.

The discussion has increased enormously within the schools of the NCAA in the last year, ... We're on the right track, but those few schools that really profit from the relationship have the toughest decision to make.

Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.

We've got severe problems here, folks. Whoever attempts to minimize them is doing the university a disservice.

I never dreamed I would be doing a Ph.D., ... I never dreamed I would become a professor. I certainly didn't dream I would become a dean or the president of a university.

We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.

Please stop crying for ineligible USC receiver Mike Williams. He dropped out of second term last year when he declared, hired an agent and took the up-front loan money and benefits from the agent. The only reason he's in school now is because the big-time didn't quite work out. If you let him back after all that, you set the precedent that amateurism and benefits are negotiable.

Creationism is not biology and has no place in a biology class. What makes it wrong is not the theory of creationism, but the teaching of creationism as part of a science class.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.

Everybody comes to a school saying, I want to win a national championship, but until it happens, its just a dream. Then when it happens, you sit back and think, Man, I really lived a dream of mine. . . . It gets better every time I think about it.

People don't understand the technology and there's a lot of anxiety about it. There's so much bad press that it's past the point of educating the consumer.

We've all heard the term 'front porch. Your athletic program and your facilities are the front porch of the university. The facilities are the first impression of your program, your institution. We have rooms inside our stadium now that we can't even show people.

This is one of the things we enjoy doing the most to help the college. It's a worthwhile cause and gives some people a chance to finish their education.

The Sousa era was also the same time as the boarding-school era when the Oneidas were shipped off (to be educated in white ways, as opposed to the tribal ways). They learned the Sousa music and took it back with them when they were done with boarding school.

So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.

I find Pat a terrific academic leader, very straightforward and a good communicator, and well-versed in the workings of a complex university. He is decisive and responsive in decision making, seeks and incorporates input to important decisions and has an excellent interpersonal style.

Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith - a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will-but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world-faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.

We're losing our ace (Amanda Vaught) after this season. Emily can step right into her role. Amanda won a school record 19 games for us last spring.

These areas tend to be home to high-income, highly educated voters who show up at the polls. These are areas that are changing the fastest, have people arriving in enormous numbers, have demands for better schools, better roads - and politicians have to b

I love my older brother. He paved my life for me. He put my whole family on his back in college. But there's ups and downs with that. When things are going good, he's a great person to have as your brother. When bad things happen, everybody knows about it.

And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.

I hate to see the kids miss school, but everybody else strikes, why can't the teachers