Working In Education Quotes

#1. I have spent many years working in education and media, from hosting documentaries to being a spokesperson for Discovery Education to revolutionizing youth environmental service through my non-profit, EarthEcho International.

Philippe Cousteau Jr.

#2. My dad didn't have a formal education, but he had a wonderful vocabulary. So in 'Harvest,' I wanted my main character to be an innately intelligent man who would have the vocabulary to say whatever he wanted in the same way as lots of working-class people can.

Jim Crace

#3. My husband was working as principal of an urban transformation high school - the kind of public charter school determined to do whatever it takes to give its mostly minority, low-income student body the education they need and deserve to be successful in life.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#4. I'm also working with Mrs. Bush on some education projects in Afghanistan, so I get to see her a great deal.

Karen Hughes

#5. Research highlights a striking link between between encouraging child-raising and class. Half of working-class parents' interactions with their 12-18 month-olds were affirming, versus 80% among the affluent and 20% among those in poverty.

Betty Hart

#6. One teacher recently retired with a half-million dollars after 30 years of working hard, caring, dedicating herself and totally immensing herself in the problems of the students. That gave her $50. The rest of the money came from the death of a rich uncle.

Milton Berle

#7. The only way America can reduce the long-term budget deficit, maintain vital services, protect Social Security and Medicare, invest more in education and infrastructure, and not raise taxes on the working middle class is by raising taxes on the super rich.

Robert Reich

#8. Jack Woodson is currently living and working in Dallas, TX. He has forty children, and all of them have different mothers.

John Pearson

#9. Some teachers, the less effective ones, thought that fair meant distributing instruction equally to all students regardless of their needs. The exemplary teachers we studied, however thought fair meant working in ways that evened out differences between students

Richard L. Allington

#10. My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.

Abraham A. Ribicoff

#11. I've spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms.

Mark McKinnon

#12. The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.

Grace Abbott

#13. The same theme can be found in Carol Reed's pioneering The Stars Look Down, in which three classic avenue of escape from the working class are posited: crime, football and education.

Peter Wollen

#14. I was a young man working in Omaha, Nebraska, in the mid-1960s when I received a call, and I was summoned to Atlanta to work at WSB. It was, for me, the beginning of a real education about the South.

Tom Brokaw

#15. My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA.

David Oyelowo

#16. Every working family in America knows how hard it is today to find affordable childcare or early childhood education.

Bernie Sanders

#17. We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.

Nicholas Negroponte

#18. If you are working or you are running a business you have to set aside time and money to invest in your continued formal education and skills acquisition.

Strive Masiyiwa

#19. I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist ... it was a great education in human nature.

Jonathan Kellerman

#20. While NCLB drove important progress on transparency and data disaggregation, I think it's clear that the status quo in public education is not working for our kids or our country.

Michael Bennet

#21. People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.

Michael Moore

#22. When asked "What do we need to learn this for?" any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the knowledge will come in handy once the student hits middle age and starts working crossword puzzles in order to stave off the terrible loneliness.

David Sedaris

#23. I remain as committed as ever to working across party lines with anyone who believes we must invest in the future of our economy by revitalizing our transportation infrastructure, ensuring every child is getting a world class education, and spurring research and development of new technologies.

Jim Himes

#24. One thing we know for sure is that the Web is a collaborative medium unlike any we've ever had before. We see people working together, playing together, interacting in social settings using these media. We hope that will emerge as the new tool for education.

Vint Cerf

#25. I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do with my life.

Clay Aiken

#26. Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students in each class was huge. I think in political science general, which I taught, it was around 100.

Pranab Mukherjee

#27. Let's make sure that we are working for age-appropriate sex education in our school system.

Wendy Davis

#28. I'm very interested in working with nonprofits, people in education, medicine, people who are doing things to improve the world and who don't have the money to come to Siegel+Gale for help.

Alan Siegel

#29. Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no cruelty. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety in the streets ... for reforms in the law.

Dale Spender

#30. We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families.

Dan Lipinski

#31. By working to ensure we live in a society that prioritizes public safety, education, and innovation, entrepreneurship can thrive and create a better world for all of us to live in.

Ron Conway

#32. Learning and teaching are not symmetrical. They are not the flip sides of the same coin, in spite of the fact that almost all papers and conversations on education assume they are. The working assumption

Sugata Mitra

#33. I've loved the whole process. From previews to rehearsals, I'm in the best company. I've done one West End show before this but the excitement here ... it's incredible. It's been a real education working on this, I don't feel worthy. The role is over the top, bold and ridiculous.

Rupert Grint

#34. I am asking teachers to understand that we must make the education relevant for the children. If they're only working for the tests or they're only working to please us, they're not going to be interested in school.

Rafe Esquith

#35. Artists with the lack of proper education and experience of working from life will copy whatever is visible on the photograph, without knowing what's underneath. As a result, instead of creating the in-depth and full of character portrait, they draw a mask with no soul.

Igor Babailov

#36. Don't fall asleep in classes. It's such a lucky thing you have, to be taught and to be learning and not have to be working in a shop somewhere.

Mitch Albom

#37. The parent knows instinctively that if they're working and setting an example for their child that means that child is more likely to be in school, more likely to stay out of trouble and more likely to complete their education.

John Engler

#38. Instead of unfairly demonizing teachers, we should be working with them to find solutions to the problems in our schools and make sure every child gets an outstanding public education.

Albio Sires

#39. Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.

Martin Seligman

#40. My parents always stressed the importance of education, working hard in school and learning as much as possible. They also encouraged me to value myself and believe in myself and do what I thought was right for me.

Hillary Clinton

#41. My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.

Graham Norton

#42. In high performing countries, principals are working with highly qualified teachers who come from the top tiers of the graduation range, who have been rigorously prepared in universities and through supervised practice in schools, and who remain in education for all of their careers.

Andy Hargreaves

#43. There are some people who have had no pay rises for a very long time, and, working in highly skilled and highly responsible roles and in the health services and education, they deserve to be properly remunerated.

Jeremy Corbyn

#44. I find the education I got from living in Derby and being streetwise and knowing the people that I know, the lessons that I had to learn growing up, have set me in good stead for this kind of working life.

Jack O'Connell

#45. You can't have public health without working with the public sector. You can't have public education without working with the public sector in education.

Paul Farmer

#46. It takes 5 to 7 years to turn a novice into a case officer capable of working in the capitals of the world.

Tim Weiner

#47. Belonging to the working class is the economy's punishment for those who did what they were told to do in class.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#48. My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege.

Ezra Koenig

#49. Our education system was developed for an industrial era where we could teach certain skills to our children and they were able to use these skills for the rest of their lives working productively in an industry.

Naveen Jain

#50. My father was placid and easygoing. He owned a small shoe store where I helped out on Saturdays. I think he'd have been pleased if I'd made a career of working in the shoe store. But my mother was ambitious. She encouraged us to read books, and she pushed us toward a musical education.

Alan W. Livingston

#51. Of course we had the best possible classical education, which gave us a very strong foundation and tradition. But we also learned a lot by collaborating with different pop/rock artists and especially by recording and working in the studio.

Luka Sulic

#52. The best education I received was working with people in the community on a grassroots basis. Because what it taught me was that ordinary people, when they are working together can do extraordinary things.

Barack Obama

#53. I think integration in Norway is, by all standards, going relatively well. People are working, taking education, learning the language.

Jonas Gahr Store