Educational Success Quotes

No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.

In Estonia, our greatest national treasure is our egalitarian educational system.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.

I was a good but not super serious student until about 10th grade, until I was about 14 or 15. Then I started to realise how competitive the world is. I started to meet kids who were more high-performing.

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

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre.

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

I was a class clown, never got good grades.

Respect for education—the idea that education will buy improvement in our lives—is one of the oldest and fundamental American ideas.

People think of teachers who are born to teach, and you think of all these charismatic folks. Some of the most successful teachers are some of the least charismatic, interestingly. But they have a gift of figuring out what motivates people.

I never thought I would get a degree of any type.

I'm passionate about schoolwork because I don't like getting bad grades.

I was always really smart in school. My whole family is smart. We have 'Jeopardy' challenges and have Scrabble tournaments.

Getting a degree from Duke University is an amazing accomplishment for me.

Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.

For me specifically, it was important to graduate. In my family, I was one of the first graduates. My mom did not have a college degree. My dad did not have a college degree.

For me, acting was a reward. I had to get good grades in order to act, in order to be on TV. I had to do well in school so I could work. To me, it was like an after-school activity, something to look forward to.

As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions.

I come from a council estate in Tower Hamlets, and by no means am I the only person who has done well - one of my friends is head of year in a great school in Twickenham. Another is a writer; another is an artist, a musician.

My contention is, first, that we should want more from our educational efforts than adequate academic achievement and, second, that we will not achieve even that meager success unless our children believe that they themselves are cared for and learn to care for others.

I always have to bring back an all-A report card.

I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that.

My parents came from an environment where everyone knew that the way to be successful was to get a great education, and that was going to be your ticket in life. If you could succeed in education then you would succeed in life, so that was sort of the driving force behind my parents' upbringing, and therefore kind of how they brought me up.

When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.