Jennifer Garner Quotes

If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.

My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.

My parents believed in the power of education.

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

My parents told me that education was the path to success - and they showed me, taking me to Head Start while they were pursuing their own college degrees.

Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew. To say you've got to inquire, you've got to be testing your knowledge all the time in order to be more effective in what you're doing.

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

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

My parents really pushed me to excel in school. Education was always important to them, so it was important to me.

I never stop reading. I read everything, and I read every day. If you never read anything, be curious. Curiosity is the true foundation of education, reading things that we've factually already agreed on, and I love reading books. With that said, it's more important that you ask the question 'why.'

It's important to have the opportunity to learn.

My education has allowed me to be more open to ideas which I would not have been had I not been as educated.

I loved to learn everything, everything in sight, and I was never satisfied that I knew everything there was to know in each of my courses.

Fortunately, I grew up in a traditional family where questioning was encouraged, particularly by my pandit grandfather. We are all voracious readers, seeking knowledge. I learn a lot from discussions with my wife, siblings and parents.

My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.

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.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

I was lucky because my mum was a teacher and showed me how to read and write. But most importantly, she encouraged me to use my imagination.

I believe primary and secondary education is the bedrock of any sustainable society.

I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

I spend so much time with the brightest and most talented and well-rounded people. I've had the privilege of having long and very intellectual conversations with people, and sometimes I just sit there and listen. It's like a better version of a class. Even though I'm not sitting at a desk and in school, I'm still learning all the time.

While my parents never had the time or money to secure university education themselves, they were adamant that their children should. In comfort and in love, we were taught the joys of knowledge and of work well done. I only regret that neither my mother nor my father could live to see the day I would accept the Nobel Prize.