Lionel Sosa Quotes

But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV.

The Purdue education was fine, but I wasn't ready to learn when I was at Purdue.

The best schools tend to have the best teachers, not to mention parents who supervise homework, so there is less need for self-organised learning. But where a child comes from a less supportive home environment, where there are family tensions perhaps, their schoolwork can suffer. They need to be taught to think and study for themselves.

My interest in science had many roots. Some came from my mother as she finished her B.A. degree studies in college while I was in my early teens.

To be perfectly honest with you, I was partying a lot in school. I didn't have any good study habits from high school because I just kind of got by on being a jock.

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

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

My first year of college was tough. I thought that just being an athlete I could get by. I thought I was okay until I got kicked out, which happened twice.

Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.

Yeah, I went to ACT for a while. It was great.

My parents were obsessed with my education.

My mom had always been big on education. She was the first woman in our family to go to college, and she often reminded me that I needed to go to college if I wanted to really make it in life.

We have too few college graduates. We also have too few people who are prepared for college.

My parents always raised us with the idea of having college in mind. You sort of need a college education. It's part of life. It's something that you do - like going to your prom.

The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.

Education was something my parents always put a lot of emphasis on. It was naturally in me, and my sister is equally driven. She is a paediatric endocrinologist.

My mother really wanted me to go to school and to university, but I was adamant that I wanted to be a football player.

There's something about majors where I just focus a lot more. Obviously, I need to do that more often.

So often we think, well, kids learn to read at school, I don't have to be responsible for that. But in fact they learn to love reading at home, and therefore it's really important that we as parents preserve the joy of reading by supporting them and reading things that speak to their hearts, books that they love.

I did hardly any academic work. I learnt a fair amount, though.

Between my freshman and senior years of high school in the late '90s, my father spent his evenings, weekends and vacations drilling my best friend and me for our SATs.

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

I think any system I can do well in.

I know that college is a big step from high school. So I wanted to make sure I was ready for it.

My mother was very strong on me to go to college. No one had ever been to college, including my parents.