Quotes about Education

Science should be on tap, not on top.

You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

My time in prison only deepened my resolve against apartheid. Even while I was in prison, I fought against it, teaching my cellmates about white supremacy and how to fight against it.

I went straight from high school to Bible college for two years. Then I started doing music right out of Bible college full time. I did independent stuff for three years.

There's more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.

but teachers are the most unpredictable creatures on earth.

teachers are the greatest freaks on earth,....

We three have been raised in good families, we have the opportunity to get an education and make something of ourselves. We have many reasons to hope for great happiness, but... we have to earn it. And that's something you can't achieve by taking the easy way out. Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

Learning is not done to you, it is something you choose to do.

Being surrounded by educated people makes democracy stronger, and it benefits our entire economy.

Just about everything you learned in school about life is wrong, but the wrongest thing might very well be this: Being well rounded is the secret to success.