Ellen Goodman Quotes

It feels important to go school; not necessarily to further my education, but more like a hobby.

Learning is the most important thing, no mater how you do it, or where you do it, or who you do it with.

My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.

I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

I just want to be educated.

I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.

My focus is mainly on education. I believe education made all the difference for me, and it is certainly going to make all the difference for other children, too.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

I'm self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But that was my dream - to have class.

I was the first and only person in my family to go to university, and I spent two decades redesigning myself: even my voice is the product of elocution lessons.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.

In Holy Cross, I came to like school, to like studying in a way I had never done before.

You can't just shuffle people around like they're deck chairs on a ship. You have to help them change their lives, and you have to give them the requisite resources to do so.

The primary motivation for me is to learn.

I want to learn a lot.

We all have to get better as human beings and that's something you can't really get away from.

Education is the most powerful tool for everything but certainly to create opportunities for yourself, and I know that not everyone has the privilege of an education like here in America.

If you're going to become a better person, do it in high school.

School was always a major player in my personal journey. It allowed me to open up to the world, and also social mobility. It allowed me to enrich myself, to read, learn and understand.

I'd like to continue my education. The physical stuff's great and I think it's great as an actor because you get to live a lot of little lives, but learning more about the world, learning another language, continuing with my Spanish that's important.

Probably the most important piece of advice that I've ever gotten is to develop your mind. I left school very young and I always regretted it.

It was a good thing that she got herself into this other school. It showed her that there were other worlds beside the world she had been born into and that these other worlds were not unattainable.

The world is but a school of inquisition; it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.

I was told that my going to college wouldn't be good for my career. I think that's nonsense. It's good to empower yourself by cutting yourself off from this business every once in a while.