Education Quotes (18224 Quotes)

It's not like they were doing it in school. It was kids drinking on the Internet.

Even in the face of continued good news, Kerry clings to his message of gloom and doom, supporting it with twisted statistics. Kerry's complaints about a middle class squeeze are out of touch with the reality that home sales hit a record high last month, college tuition increases slowed and consumer confidence is rising.

It would seem to favor the community colleges, to the detriment of students who would prefer to attend a university. Some kids are better served at community colleges, and some kids are better served at universities. That decision should be based on academic reasons, not economic reasons.

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.

It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.

If you look at the university system today, USF has an average SAT entry of 1,120 to 1,150 with goals to increase that. Students are expected to come to school often with some of their initial courses already done.

Schools need to illustrate the connection between curriculum and the real world. Students can spout back lessons but they don't know what it means.

I blitzed a lot in college. But these were the first sacks of my career and I'm very excited about it.

I didn't like (the helmets), ... My primary reason being the school colors are green and gold.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

These girls in middle school had a couple of opportunities to play against them as well. They had a reputation coming up through middle school. So, our girls are pretty familiar with them. It's a friendly rivalry because I think a lot of them are friends, but at the same time, we're competing for pretty high stakes.

Don't put anything in the garbage you wouldn't want to hand to a criminal. Understand the problem, learn about you situation and act on it.

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.

It was kind of in anticipation of. We didn't know what he might be proposing. Given that not only he, but the Legislature in the past, has felt the urge to subject the Education Fund to new uses, we felt it was an appropriate expression of concern.

Taxpayers will not stand for - nor should they - the funding of poster sites, leaflets or advertising. What people will support is funding for political education, for training, for party organization.

I'm an encourager. I believe I've learned a lot from what I call the university of life.

There is, however, a change going on in the world. There's far more interest in drawing now than there has been in a long, long time. Schools are beginning to teach drawing again in a serious and meaningful way.

I think education is one of the greatest tools for most kids not only to expand their book knowledge, but their ability to experience new things - I think it opens more doors than any other experience I can think of.

The schools would argue that, 'Oh, we are providing an education' -- which they are really not, because theyre only giving you one year on a see-what-happens basis, ... And they also say, 'If you dont want to live like this, then go pro.' Well, you dont say that to the coach. Its OK for the coach to have a TV deal or endorsement deal. I dont begrudge the coach, but the player should have some opportunities.

They come alone and in clusters. Second-year PGA Tour member Zach Johnson, a native of Iowa, packed up his clubs and moved to the Orlando area with some college buddies in 1999. Six guys, three bedrooms, ... If you want to see how good you can become, you have to go somewhere you can play year-round. We hit balls in a dome in college. That's not the best way to develop your game.

School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.

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The class I liked the best, that I think helped me the most, was my movement class because when I got out of high school, I was very hunched over.

The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich.

During the first 11 years of the study period, we found an over-representation of alcohol-related fatal and injury crashes the day of the game. The proportion of fatal and injury crashes that were alcohol-related was 33 percent greater on Super Bowl Sunday than on comparable Sundays in January and February.

It was probably one of the best games I've played in college.

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.

I just think there is always a huge need to help our students going to college.

They weren't max-protecting like they did the first game. Everyone was just so focused. I've never had a four-sack game in my life. Not high school, college, pickup, whatever.

We shouldn't any of us be afraid of teaching protective measures to save lives.

Identity Theft 911 congratulates Rutgers on stepping up on behalf of the university community. We're honored that Rutgers has chosen us to join them in fighting this epidemic.

It's a lesson that we've seen in many states. If there are a large number of schools that aren't making progress, there is very little sanction to handle that in a meaningful way.

We are pleased that senators from both parties understand the hurricane did not discriminate between public and private schools, and neither should our public leaders.

I think he'll do fine. He was a shortstop out of high school, so he knows about playing middle infield. He's got good feet and a strong arm, but his bat is going to carry him no matter what position he's at.

I would look at all the student's records, discuss the record with administration at the school, and then I make a decision on what I think is best for the student and the district, ... You don't have a cookie cutter that you can use when you're on a case-by-case basis. You have to trust that my professional judgment would be what's for the best for the district and the kid.

In a sense, my approach to education is the opposite of my approach to real estate. The apartments and offices I build aren't cheap, so there's an element of exclusivity there, but Trump University is meant to be inclusive. A contradiction I don't know, but so what if it is

Coach (Jimmy) Williams said it best that these guys have a resistance to learning. We go over it every day. For some reason these guys don't absorb it. That's what has frustrated the coaches. They're good people. They're not bad kids at all. But it's been a very frustrating year for the coaching staff.

We're really going to be young this year. We lost eight seniors, and five of those are playing in college this year. We may take some lumps early, but we're optimistic and we've got a lot of potential.

We both sort of coach together. We share practices. And the children come over after school, and they're watching us practice. Sometimes, they'll even get out there and work out with the team.

At a time when our military is trying to attract the best and the brightest of our young people, it makes no sense to bar recruiters from college campuses--especially when federal funds are used to support these schools.

That was a hell of an atmosphere, ... That's what separates the SEC from every other conference in college football. I mean go to the Swamp, or go here, or go to Alabama.

I plan to work very closely with the University Of Arkansas System, the Clinton Foundation and the National Archives in building on a great partnership.

A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.

You teach best what you need to learn.

A merchant may extend his dealings, a tradesman may increase his customers, but the teacher's income depends solely upon the number of his scholars.

The idea of what is a college professor like What is a college classroom like They already know the answer to those questions.

In most of these programs, ... education is completely subordinate to the demands of the sport.

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

The additional preschool funding is excellent news. Even though full-day kindergarten is a constant priority of the State Board of Education, we recognize it is very expensive to fund on the state level.

Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.