I’ve been thinking, lately, my whole life maybe, about who gets to sit down and at what cost.
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Quotes tagged ‘Education’
Erica Albright: [Angry] I'm sorry you are not sufficiently impressed with my education. Mark Zuckerberg: I'm sorry I don't have a rowboat, so we're even. Erica Albright: I think we should just be friends. Mark Zuckerberg: I don't want friends. Erica Albright: I was just being polite, I have no inten…
Healthcare as a human right, it means that every child, no matter where you are born, should have access to a college or trade-school education if they so choose it, and I think no person should be homeless if we can have public structures and public policy to allow for people to have homes and food…
I'm always interested in learning something new.
Everything is physics and math.
Many professors tell you that you'd be good at this or that, but they don't always help you with that career path.
Take all the courses in your curriculum. Do the research. Ask questions. Find someone doing what you are interested in! Be curious!
I ain’t gonna lie to you, alright? Look, I just got out of rehab a couple days ago, and I’m trying to get my life together, you know? I’m trying. I have this little girl at home, and I”m trying to do the best I can for her so she has a future. I know I ain’t got the most education in the world. I kn…
— Remi Aubuchon, Damon Wayans, Carlos Martinez, Vincent Laresca, imdb.com
Kevin Jackson: Jefferson used to sleep with his slaves. The book don't say nothin' about that. They don't even say how he even had slaves. Washington neither. So I don't see why I should bust my black ass reading about a bunch of lies. Harvey Lipschultz: Well, you see Mr. Jackson, my job is to see t…
— David E Kelley, Harvey Lipschultz, Fyvush Finkel, imdb.com
Dr. Temperance Brennan: I find you very condescending Special Agent Seeley Booth: Me? I'm condescending? I'm not the one who has to mention that she's got a doctorate every 5 minutes Dr. Temperance Brennan: I am the one with the doctorate
— Hart Hanson, Temperance 'Bones' Brennan, Emily Deschanel, imdb.com
Victor: How is it you know all this but you've never gotten above a B- in calculus? Chase: Calc's boring. I like practical applications.
— Rodney Barnes, Michael Vukadinovich, Chase Stein, Gregg Sulkin, imdb.com
Mix curriculums, you play basketball while doing math.
School is boring.
I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.
They weren’t wedded to their initial opinions. They weren’t allowed to be. And they moved not toward the best answer but toward better questions.
I punched my music teacher because I didn’t think he knew anything about music and I almost got expelled.
We have to harden the schools, not soften them up. A gun-free zone to a killer or somebody that wants to be a killer—that’s like going in for the ice cream.
Oh... and how is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home wine-making course and I forgot how to drive?
Vanessa Baxter: Boyd is learning Spanish at his new school. Blanca: And I will say, with *that* they are doing a very good job. Mike Baxter: Why are they teaching him Spanish in the first grade? Vanessa Baxter: Well, honey, it's a bilingual school. The teacher says everything in English and then say…
You're an educated man, my lord, but I think it worth reminding you that in most cases a man trying to change the world fails for one simple and unavoidable reason... everyone else.
— Michael S. Chernuchin, Captain Flint, Toby Stephens, imdb.com