Education : (1041)

" The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind. " - Mason Cooley

" In my house, education was the paramount value. And if you grew up in a neighborhood like mine, you were forced to decide early on what you stood for in life, because there were a lot of peer pressures that could take you the wrong way. " - Kenneth Frazier

" I wasn’t interested in sport or anything obvious, so I didn’t stand out. I was interested in music, but I couldn’t read music, so I wasn’t allowed to do the GCSE. I was interested in painting, but no one’s interested in a 16-year-old boy who’s interested in painting. I wanted to get out of school very, very quickly. " - Matt Berry

" I didn’t have Marathi as a language in school. My second language was French. " - Mahesh Manjrekar

" We will depend on American students who can turn their literacy in coding and computer science into creative solutions that address the complex problems facing our nation. " - Abigail Spanberger

" We need more partnerships like Vigor Industrial and Portland Community College where men and women in search of a career can get the training they need to get hired right out of school. " - Kate Brown

" For one year I did go to Performing Arts School, and I had very weird friends. " - Christina Milian

" I’m not a great reader, believe it or not. It’s not the vocabulary – my father made me read the dictionary when I was little – but my attention span is poor. Takes me months to read one book. " - David Robinson

" When you’re fund-raising for schools, then something’s wrong. We seem to have lost some sort of sense of what the common good is, and if you don’t have a sense of what the common good is, then at least give to what you think your specific goods are. " - Lewis Black

" I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research. " - Douglass North