Stacy Brown-Philpot Quotes

I like to learn about things. I could learn about business, which I knew nothing about. Since the age of 7, I wanted to be a doctor and nothing else.

I definitely felt by the time I got to grad school - which was a great experience - I was like, 'What's the difference between the teachers and the students? Why are the teachers teachers if they want to be acting?' It didn't make sense to me anymore. It's not like you learn how to set a broken bone and you get the stamp of approval.

In business, experience is the big teacher.

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

My father, Emil Palade, was professor of philosophy, and my mother, Constanta Cantemir-Palade, was a teacher. The family environment explains why I acquired early in life great respect for books, scholars and education.

I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.

I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?

I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I'm doing is I'm studying.

I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.

My brother's a teacher in Costa Rica and actually does a more important and significant job than I will ever do.

While I appreciated the educational advantages I enjoyed in the school and was proud of what I could show in mental culture, I had an earnest desire for something more than a mere business education... I desired to study for a profession, and this prompted me to leave my native state.

Teachers do the noble work of educating our children. And we can't thank them enough for the hard work they put in every day to ensure a bright future for all of us.

Teachers are unparalleled in the role they play in children's lives.

I have become a subscriber for 'Business Week.' It teaches me a lot about business, and I have really started to get into it. I'm interested in business and learning about how everything works.

My daughter became a teacher right out of college.

Well... I graduated from the business school of Northumberland University in Newcastle.

Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.

I was going to get a degree in economics and be a teacher. But I couldn't afford to pay for the education. So I just got the MBA and not the doctorate. I loved it at Bain, and I've been there ever since.

My parents were language teachers. They talked about teaching all the time and all their friends were teachers. It was considered a pre-ordained thing that I would go into teaching.

I majored in business/marketing because I was going to be a teacher and a high school basketball coach.

Next to my family, it seems clear to me that the educational institutions and the teachers from whom I had the privilege of learning were especially important.

Teachers are always trying to inspire people to do better, to learn, to grow. That's what we do, and we're proud of the success we've had here doing that, and it's something we'll certainly continue to do.

In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.

Schools can do extraordinary things given the chance; teachers can do remarkable things if we eliminate the paperwork that sometimes binds them and give them a chance to really teach in our schools.

I love school, and I love learning, and school really does inspire me for a lot of my writing - just being in public school with people and watching things happen.