Educational Goals Quotes

Let's face it. My dad was a mechanic, and my mom was a cop: my college options in seventh grade didn't look that great. And the chance I got to go to college and experience college life is something that's pretty precious to me.

I knew without doubt that I would try and continue my education as I was skating.

I'd like to provide an SAT word in everything I do.

An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear.

I dropped out of college for the last time in 1977.

I willed myself through a junior college to a university and, ultimately, a Ph.D.

We have fallen into the bad and unquestioned habit of thinking that our educational system is broken, but it is working on all cylinders. What our educational system aims to produce is cultural amnesia, a wholesale lack of curiosity, history-less free agents, and educational goals composed of content-free processes and unexamined buzz-words like “critical thinking,” “diversity,” “ways of knowing,” “social justice,” and “cultural competence.”

I realized very early in life what my abilities and limitations were, and foreign languages was definitely one of my limitations. With strenuous effort, I just barely passed my French class at Harvard so I could graduate.

I'm not a nerd, don't plan to be a nerd and read books - which I can't do at all.

I had to do a lot of studying 'cause I had to learn new languages all the time. So it was a little bit painful watching other kids play outside, and I'm stuck at home learning something.

I didn't finish college, and I was very sad about that because I don't think I gave myself a chance to learn, to prove to myself that I could learn.

If I had been a good student and an achiever, I might have been excited by a more systematic approach to writing than what I do.

I took the LSAT. My score was decent. I had a plan that if my score was really well, then I might of just went to Yale or Harvard... But it was just mediocre. I can get into law school.

My sister started acting professionally when she was twelve, but I wanted to go to college first.

I always knew I wanted an educational background, and my mum and dad were quite big on that.

When you grow up in Chicago, your whole family is counting on you to go to college and do something distinguished. The last thing you're thinking is that you're going to make a career in show business.

I would have studied English, but I really don't like to read.

Regardless of any deviations, it was clear I was supposed to end up in math and physics.

My parents were obsessed with my education.

Standardized testing is at cross purposes with many of the most important purposes of public education. It doesn't measure big-picture learning, critical thinking, perseverance, problem solving, creativity or curiosity, yet those are the qualities great teaching brings out in a student.

I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to get your degree.

My parents always wanted me to go to college.

The educator wants the child to be finished at once and perfect. He forces upon the child an unnatural degree of self-mastery, a devotion to duty, a sense of honour - habits that adults get out of with astonishing rapidity.

My mother and brother made me strive to get good grades and get through school.

Finding out whether I had made the grades for my first choice university course or whether I needed to rethink my future was terrifying.