Quotes about Education

Your work is what you were born to do. No kind of educational system can teach you your true work, because it is your life purpose, and it is revealed by your God-given gifts.

What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.

Never memorize something that you can look up.

If you are low income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than getting a 4-year degree.

Communication is not what we say, but what you hear (which is a lesson I wish our educational system understood)

Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.

Studies consistently show that when a school requires its students to wear school uniforms, or even just has a dress code, grades rise and violence declines.

Unlike other countries, the United States is more an idea than a place, ethnicity, or race. Unfortunately, most American young people today cannot answer, What is America for? What is it about? Why was it founded? Why is it different? They can't answer these questions because they haven't been taught an answer.

In 2008, then-U.S. Senator Barack Obama told an audience, "Children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of schools, and twenty times more likely to end up in prison.

freedom translates into having a supply of clean water, having electricity on tap; being able to live in a decent home and have a good job; to be able to send your children to school and to have accessible healthcare. I mean what's the point of having made this transition if the quality of life... is not enhanced and improved? If not, the vote is useless.

People are not born hating each other and wishing to cause harm. It is a learned condition.

I have been working or attending school full time since I was 13.