Schooling Quotes

As far back as 1969, black males who came from homes where there were newspapers, magazines, and library cards had the same incomes as whites from similar homes and with the same number of years of schooling. In the 1970s, black husband-and-wife families outside the South earned as much as white husband-and-wife families outside the South. By 1981, for the country as a whole, black husband-and-wife families where both were college educated and both working earned slightly more than white families of the same description.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

I'm all for education.

I went to school at Radnor High School. And I went to a liberal arts college in St. Louis, Missouri, called Lindenwood College.

Without education, you can’t have democracy.

I went to religious schools. I wasn't that enthusiastic, by and large, but it sunk in.

I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school.

I'm an educated individual.

I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.

I left school my senior year to do a play at the Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas. Then while I was doing a play, I auditioned for Juilliard. I got in over the summer, and they told me, 'You have to graduate high school to come here. You don't need the SATs, but you do need to graduate high school.' I finished over the summer through correspondence.

Education is the number one priority.

I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading.

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

Not all schooling is education nor all education, schooling.

Growing up on a farm, I saw that if I didn't go to the military or go to school, and I knew my mom and my family wasn't going to be able to send me to school out of their pocket, so it basically came down to athletics. I knew I didn't want to work on a farm. I knew I didn't want to do manual labor the rest of my life.

I was taught that education is the most important thing.

Schools teach ignorance.

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

It must be a poor business man who cannot pay expenses under such labor conditions; and our statement for the fiscal year, ending June 30, 1917, showed a net profit of $156,000. This after paying ALL the expenses of the institution, making proper allowances for depreciation of buildings and machinery, paying wages to all inmates, providing them with food, clothing, schooling, shelter, medical service, entertainment, and religion, and also after paying the salaries of all officers employed. t must be a poor business man who cannot pay expenses under such labor conditions; and our statement for the fiscal year, ending June 30, 1917, showed a net profit of $156,000. This after paying ALL the expenses of the institution, making proper allowances for depreciation of buildings and machinery, paying wages to all inmates, providing them with food, clothing, schooling, shelter, medical service, entertainment, and religion, and also after paying the salaries of all officers employed.

A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district ... are the principle support of virtue, morality and civil liberty.

Drop out of the public schools. The public schools cannot be compromised with.

There's a direct link between percentage of young people that are educated and how we live our lives.

I want every girl, every child, to be educated.

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

More than half the illiteracy of the whole nation is in the South, who where are found a little more than one-fourth of the nation's white population. The church never faced a graver responsibility than the work of giving Christian culture to the illiterate white millions of the South, and the A.M.E. Church is doing for the colored what the M.E. Church is doing for the whites in the North.