Educated Quotes

I'm very educated and can give you somewhat of a vocabulary, but I don't get to the philosophical side.

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

I'm just one of the kids, and all because the students at Hamilton Heights High School listened to the facts, educated their parents and themselves, and believed in me.

Every educated person is a future enemy.

Wit is educated insolence.

The London dialect as it is spoken in educated circles.

My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.

Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.

All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed.

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.

Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.

I am brave, but I take a view. It is an educated view. I am careful. I am not reckless.

First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated.

In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.

People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost.

My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Healthy children are born from healthy, respected, well-nourished and educated mothers and it is imperative that they have a voice in the decisions which affect them. If you empower a mother and let her have her say towards a poverty-free future, the positive impact this would have on ending hunger will be immense.

Well, I always wanted to be educated and be prepared.

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.

To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.