Sean Connery Quotes

My father left school at 14 and became a fitter. He didn't want to be at school.

And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit.

To the Kenyan families, school doesn't really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out of school and so, they're spending their time learning things that are important to them.

Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we face a long-term national economic security crisis.

It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.

Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.

High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.

My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high school diploma. I often think I so wish she'd come out of the hills in Appalachia and been able to go on to college. I think she would have made a wonderful teacher.

Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go and work in the line at Ford's, and if we were lucky, technical skilled labor. I sort of rejected that, and thought I wanted to do something else.

When I - when I was going to school, I knew how to read, write, add and subtract and I - I basically said, 'What else do I need? I'm never going to be able to go to college. I'm not going to be able to afford to go to college. I'm not going to be able to get a scholarship.'

My father left school at the age of fourteen, so this was a man with no deep experience of formal education.

Acting is not a thing where I'm from. Finishing school is a big thing. Not a lot of people finish school.

Where I'm from, you focus on finishing school. Even finishing college is seen as a stretch - you just get a job after school, and that's it.

I grew up in a place where there weren't many opportunities if you didn't become a footballer.

I don't want to sound like an ad, a public service ad on TV, but the fact is if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don't, then you've got, the Army, Iraq, I don't know, something like that. It's, it's not as bright. So, that's my little commercial for that.

I know that if I had got educated, I might have ended up as a call-center employee.

I come from the ghetto in Brazil, where we don't have a lot of career opportunities, so I'm sure my family and people who live there never imagined that one day I'd become a singer and be able to perform at an event like the Olympics.

Did I have a mis-spent youth? I suppose I did in that I left school early without any qualifications, having bunked off a few times for tournaments.

Education is the most powerful tool for everything but certainly to create opportunities for yourself, and I know that not everyone has the privilege of an education like here in America.

I left school just shy of 17: I'd started going into touring and that situation.

There are lots of great educationalists out there who really care about social mobility.

People, in general, want to improve their lives and the lives of their children and other loved ones.

I went into the military because I wanted to get an education, not because I wanted to fight anybody.

I want to do more to create more awareness so that the people in our communities aren't just thinking that you just got to be a basketball player or a rapper, because that's what I thought.

It didn't help my career to be living in Appalachia.