Christopher Morley Quotes

Education is not about thinning the herd. Education is about helping every student succeed.

I'm happy to be helping people that are passionate about empowering parents for student learning.

I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.

Kids flourish if we get them to school every day.

Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.

I think of it as a good opportunity to let, in particular, school kids know that this job and other interesting jobs in science and engineering are open to anyone who works hard in school and gets a good education and studies math and science. And that it's not just for a select group of people.

I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.

No child should be deprived the opportunity to excel.

Students do not need to be labeled or measured any more than they are. They don't need more Federal funds, grants, and gimmicks. What they need from us is common sense, dedication, and bright, energetic teachers who believe that all children are achievers and who take personally the failure of any one child.

Education is a business - the growth business. It cultivates the growth of our learners, translates the growth of new knowledge, and builds professional growth.

Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her needs. If we can send a low-income child to a parochial school, knowing that his odds of attending college will increase as a result, then that should be our mission.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

When I was growing up, I was lucky to benefit from a first class education.

Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems.

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion.

I believe primary and secondary education is the bedrock of any sustainable society.

The best escalator to opportunity in America is education.

I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.

The importance of 'Dream School' is monumental. Helping to inspire these students to reach their potential is personally gratifying.

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.

Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.

This is ridiculous, I mean, wholly ridiculous. It never did any child any harm to have something that was a tiny bit above them anyway, and I claim that anyone who can follow Doctor Who can follow absolutely anything.