Ruth Westheimer Quotes

My father and my mother were both teachers. They inculcated to us the importance of studies.

Both my parents are teachers, and while they were always cool with what I did, they never let me take my education lightly.

My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.

I grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. My mother was a secretary. Neither of them got through high school. But they worked hard and they gave me very, very important opportunities to go to school, get a good education.

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.

I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously.

I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to get your degree.

I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.

You have to study a great deal to know a little.

My dad, in particular, was adamant that I should finish my education. He encouraged me to go to Oxford, for instance, and I rather doubt I'd have gone if he hadn't. I would have gone straight back to L.A. and tried to start my career.

I've always enjoyed real work more than schoolwork. My mother will attest to that - she was always concerned about me academically.

My dad always taught me if I have my education, anything is possible.

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

I was the daughter of teachers, so school was always very important. I liked it.

Both of my parents graduated from high school, both attended college, both have government jobs now. They've always been very adamant about me finishing high school and finishing college.

My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up.

My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had faith in my ambition, and I think that made all the difference.

Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.

We should not have 8th grade graduations. Instead we should tell the students, “You have a long way to go. Get your butt down and study.”

I want to graduate high school, so it's very important to me, and I'll be focusing hard on that as well.

It's been a while since I've studied: since high school. It's a lot of work, a lot of work.

I'm a child of academics.

I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.

My mum and dad pushed me to work hard in my earlier years in education.