Quotes About Elementary Education

#1. My elementary education was at Christ Church infant school and St. Stephen's junior school. At St. Stephen's, I encountered my first real mentor, the headmaster Mr. Broakes. He must have spotted something unusual in me, for he spent lots of time encouraging my interest in mathematics.

Richard J. Roberts

#2. I majored in elementary education, and I have a passion for kids.

Allyson Felix

#3. I had to work to eat. I couldn't even complete a basic elementary education.

Angel Cabrera

#4. Policymakers can draw much from 'The Need for Roots': such clear prescriptions as that employers ought to provide an adequate vocational training for their employees, education should be compulsory and publicly funded, and include technical as well as elementary education.

Pankaj Mishra

#5. I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.

Jack Bowman

#6. The majority of the people in the United States have had only an elementary education and have a speaking vocabulary of about two thousand words. (Even a well-educated person has a speaking vocabulary of approximately nine thousand words.)

Judith C. Waller

#7. My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

George Bernard Shaw

#8. Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left - which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study - are not likely to get much attention.

Thomas Sowell

#9. I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored people of the South stand most in need of, is elementary and industrial. They should be instructed for the work to be done.

Timothy Thomas Fortune

#10. (Marlowe's) Faustus stubbornly reverts to his atheistic beliefs and continues his elementary pagan re-education ~ the inferno to him is a 'place' invented by men.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#11. In elementary school, many a true word is spoken in guess.

Henny Youngman

#12. We have a responsibility to ensure that every individual has the opportunity to receive a high-quality education, from prekindergarten to elementary and secondary, to special education, to technical and higher education and beyond.

Jim Jeffords

#13. Eventually, mercifully, the waitress prised the spoons out of our hands and took the dessert stuff away, and we were able to stumble zombielike out into the night.

Bill Bryson

#14. He who despairs is wrong. Progress infallibly awakens, and, in short, we might say that it advances even in sleep, for it has grown.

Victor Hugo

#15. Your mission statement says Galer Street is based on global "connectitude." (You people don't just think outside the box, you think outside the dictionary!)

Maria Semple

#16. But if life were a mellow elementary school run by well-meaning education Ph.D.s, the Deliverator's report card would say: Hiro is so bright and creative but needs to work harder on his cooperation skills.

Neal Stephenson

#17. The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

Jose Bergamin

#18. If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed by the governor and council or any other general authority of the government, than by the parents within each ward, it is a belief against all experience.

Thomas Jefferson

#19. In order to fail, first you have to try.

Jasper Fforde

#20. Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. No one is as old as to think he or she cannot live one more year.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#21. Every creature is born with a potential store of violence.

R.K. Narayan

#22. Logic is not only an exact science, but is the most simple and elementary of all sciences; it ought therefore undoubtedly to find some place in every course of education.

William Stanley Jevons

#23. Making disciples of Jesus is the overflow of the delight in being disciples of Jesus.

David Platt

#24. No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#25. The only sort of descriptive adjective or catch phrase for my music would be 'eclectic.'

Moby

#26. 'Polytechnique' changed everything in my way of working. I became an adult, really, during those five years. I didn't work on anything else but 'Polytechnique.'

Karine Vanasse

#27. The Christian religion and National Socialist doctrines are not compatible.

Martin Bormann

#28. Whatever modern democracies may tell themselves about their commitment to free speech and to diversity of opinion, the values of a given society will uncannily match those of whichever organizations have the scale to pay for runs of thirty-second slots around the nightly news bulletin.

Alain De Botton

#29. I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

Carl Sagan

#30. If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will.

Stockwell Day

#31. Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.

Donna Brazile

#32. Subtle and literate, The Dance of Intimacy is like a long, revealing conversation with a wise and compassionate friend.

Maggie Scarf

#33. Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education.

Sam Harris