Education Quotes (18224 Quotes)

I've known about Ricardo since he entered high school. It's been a pleasure to see his development as a player. He certainly helped us out today. I don't know that we could have won without him.

In my faith, I believe it is God who created the universe. Should that be taught as an option in the school system I don't think so. To me, this is something families should deal with, and not public schools.

A psychologist once asked a group of college students to jot down, in thirty seconds, the initials of the people they disliked. Some of the students taking the test could think of only one person. Others listed as many as fourteen. The interesting fact that came out of this bit of research was this Those who disliked the largest number were themselves the most widely disliked. When we find ourselves continually disliking others, we ought to bring ourselves up short and ask ourselves the question 'What is wrong with me.'

The evidence base is showing you need to raise taxes, you need to pass laws and enforce laws on exposure to second-hand smoke. You also need to pass laws and enforce the laws on regulating media exposure and advertising regarding pro-tobacco, you need to develop a youth-focused cessation program as a community and probably at the school level, you need to develop public education campaigns in the communities and schools that are reaching the young people, and those campaigns need to not be focused on just boys.

No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en In brief, sir, study what you most affect.

As a young girl, I wanted to be a first-grade teacher. When I was about 12 years old, I saw an Easter Seals commercial on television that really made me want to do something in my life in which I would help children with IDD.

We want to complement development in the region. The University's designation as one of the country's most entrepreneurial campuses suggests to us a portion of the additional property should be considered for business and research innovation opportunities that involve interactions between the University and the local community.

Joan of Arc is my namesake. I played her character while still in my teens, at a music festival held at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

Justin was a juvenile probation officer for a number of years. He has seen the inside of kids who have gotten in trouble. Now he spends his time speaking at school assemblies. He also works a lot with MADD and DARE. I've read that he's talked to 400,000 students in the last year.

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

David , he's got a lot of opinions. He's an intelligent, well-spoken guy, well educated. He's got a lot of strong opinions. It's not necessarily him forcing his opinion it's him expressing his feelings on certain issues. I don't think he's ever going to write a song that's about teenyboppers falling in love. I know he always likes to refer to those love stories as 'riding off on their skateboards into the sunset together.' I don't think he's ever going to be writing those kinds of lyrics. He's a very intelligent guy with a lot of issues world issues, political issues, religious issues, relationship issues. These are adult topics. The kids can relate to it too, but we're all adults. He's got topics that strike a chord with him, ones that he wants to get a release on and speak about.

It's going to be a strong fight. It's going to be based on issues, education, health care, working families.

Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to.

I feel pretty good, ... To not swing a baseball bat in almost a year, no spring training, and go to a college and hit in a cage for a week and come out here and face major league pitching ... like I try to tell these guys, 'If I give you a little, it's a lot in this stage.'

I don't even like chocolate, but my eye was casting over the possibilities. I am always interested in things that have a bigger social purpose than just being commercial. If I had my way, everything we sold would have a social mission. As a nonprofit, we're not in the business of creating individual personal wealth but of building social capital. That's part of our mission. I've watched funding for arts education go down in the last 20 years. Anything we can do for integrated arts education is great - for all ages, not just kids.

Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and educators and business owners and advertising professionals and ministers are attracted to our little school.

Number one, the best anti-poverty program is a job, ... And second, it is education. We are closing the achievement gap between black, Hispanic and white children.

This is important to clarify, because a lot of people don't understand that I came in '69 and then went back to Panama to finish school.

It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid.

It's like going back to school. You know, autumn Time for Harry Potter.

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

This will bring the number of schools in the district to about 50 schools within the next 10 years.

The season started, you've got two games under your belt, you're no longer rookies any more. We don't have any more time to still be learning.

A good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at times make it almost seem like a live teacher.

She's excited to see the new track after all those years of running there in high school and for three years in college.

Protection of environmental resources is as much of a long-term investment in California's future as is the construction of public works that provide water or improve transportation or schools.

I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life.

We even have a player we discovered out of the University of South Florida, Judah Hernandez, who has been dying for a chance to play for Trinidad and Tobago.

We've had a lot more teens hanging out at the new library, ... The kids really like the new computers and a lot of them come here to hang out with their friends and do their homework after school.

We know people on calorie restriction will lose weight. But this study isn't a weight-loss study. We're hoping to learn more about whether calorie restriction can alter the aging process.

I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.

I did end up doing substitute teaching, but there's not a lot of teaching involved in that.

We need the school district to adopt a policy of sexual abuse prevention and intervention. And then we need the school district to train its employees on how to implement that policy, and we can prevent a situation like this from every happening again.

A professional player is smarter than a college man. He uses his noodle. He knows what to do and when to do it. He rarely goes up in the air as is the case with most of our college players when they get in a tight place.

We are more interested in the business case. It's a segment we will study.

I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.

We all use cell phones and when there are gaps in coverage and you don't have service, that could be a life threatening issue or the loss of a business transaction. There are more rocks in the soil than I thought could exist, so it won't hurt the environment, and it's not near any schools, so I don't see any negative impacts.

I like the way we shot free throws, but we'll have to take better shots tomorrow against Mississippi College.

Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.

I've always wanted to be a coach I never wanted to play basketball professionally. I happened to get lucky and made a career out of it, but my decision was to be a college coach when I was in college. But I got sidetracked with this.

You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelve-month with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.

The more than 100 people we had on the committee said the voting public would never go for a second high school,

Many of the schools are not usable anymore so the kids can't go back to school. Some children have been actually hurt by the fighting itself but probably more of them have been hurt by the psychological damage,

School administrators are so concerned about discipline in school that they neglect the fundamental rights of students. Not only do students have a constitutional right to express themselves in the school so long as they're not disrupting the educational

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

When I was in my last year in high school, I decided I wanted to try to make it in the NBA. So I went to college and figured out I could do it. Once I figured out I could play in the NBA, I also figured I could be an All-Star. I knew I could do it.

We played a poor first half. If we had played 32 minutes like we did the last 16 minutes, there wouldn't have been a problem. There's lessons to be learned from everything, and the thing that the (Johnson players) coming back -- and even the ones leaving -- need to learn, is that when you do something you do it whole-heartedly.

It takes us to a level that is scary. That means we have to live with a referendum passing, or we frankly die as a school district. We will be out of money.

I did not realize how much the university has taken pride in our achieving this. I think it will have a very, very positive effect on the school.

I taught for seven years and went back to school and received my master's degree in educational leadership from the University of South Florida.