Educational Heritage Quotes

My father's side of the family was very active in education.

All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system.

I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.

They call Howard University the 'capstone of black education.' Howard was one of the historically black colleges where people want to go and send their children. Both of my grandfathers went through the medical school, and being in D.C., not far from New York City, it was a natural choice for me.

A university is a place where ancient tradition thrives alongside the most revolutionary ideas. Perhaps as no other institution, a university is simultaneously committed to the day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow.

I can assure you that there is no question of us throwing away the tradition of the Grammar Schools.

I'm a proud Ellington alum. It has everything to do with who I am.

You know, I come from six generations of college graduates.

Create a great university and wait 200 years.

I'm a proud product of the Massachusetts public schools.

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.

A lot of my family were teachers, so that's what I always thought I'd end up being.

Without wishing to damp the ardor of curiosity or influence the freedom of inquiry, I will hazard a prediction that, after the most industrious and impartial researchers, the longest liver of you all will find no principles, institutions or systems of education more fit in general to be transmitted to your posterity than those you have received from your ancestors.

Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.

The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.

Learning is good in and of itself...the mothers of the Jewish ghettoes of the east would pour honey on a book so the children would know that learning is sweet. And the parents who settled hungry Kansas would take their children in from the fields when a teacher came.