John Stumpf Quotes

Education is the number one priority.

So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.

We all know—not just from common wisdom but from hard research—that all children benefit from being in smaller classes.

I had tutors, but education was just not a priority.

Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.

I was too worried about the grades and I should have been more worried about learning.

Our ultimate goal with Real Models is to open a school and I would love to do it here in Miami, open up a charter school.

Every student has something to offer, and every student deserves a nurturing learning environment.

Whoever's in the game has got to be ready to play, take the scout serious and understand what we're doing. If you don't know what to do, ask questions.

My school, we affectionately nicknamed it Avonjail, but it was called Avondale, Avondale high school in Stockport. I left with no GCSEs above a D.

Los Angeles has all the ingredients of success... but we need to start with our education system.

Education was never my higher calling.

I like working with students a lot and watching some of the amazing stuff they put together.

We take what we do seriously, but we don't take ourselves too seriously, and I think that kind of helps us stay focused on what's important - and that is the music, our fans, and our families.

Half the point of education is to build peer groups and social bonds.

I didn't care for school much - it was very strict, corporal punishment in the form of the 'tawse' was common and unpredictable, and I was often afraid - but I believe that I did well enough; indeed, my mother always regretted that I had not stayed long enough to become the 'dux,' as the best pupil was called.

Education is more important than skating. I want to keep up with my schoolwork and my skating.

Don't opt for acting as an escape from education.

My everyday life is not just walking around on clouds. But you have to give the really special things in life importance and not let the temporary things roll you off the road.

I probably wish I'd worked harder in school. I loved school but it was more a social thing for me. I did well in school but I could have done better.

Football and school don't go together. They just don't. Trying to do both is like trying to do two full-time jobs.

Students who learn to collaborate and negotiate - on Capitol Hill, in the board room, in everyday life - will outperform peers who have higher test scores.

I feel like I had as normal a childhood as anyone, but it had a certain focus. Maybe other kids focused on sports.

I wouldn't be educating children if I did not believe in human potential.

Overall, America's math scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have risen since the 1990s though remain disappointing when compared to the rest of the globe.