Education Quote by Max Boot

My father was a teacher of the Russian language and literature in high school.

— George Gamow

My mother and I were alike in one crucial respect: We may have been Russian by birth, but we were English in spirit. She…

— Max Boot

My mom was a house mom when we were growing up, and that's all I knew about her. I had a really big disconnect…

— Amber Liu

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

— Kamala Harris

After the turmoil of the Second World War, my family ended up in Russian-occupied East Germany. When I attended fourth grade, I had to…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

My parents were attached to Russian culture by a thousand ineradicable ties. But they did not cut me off from American society, nor could…

— Keith Gessen

The way the educational system in Russia works is studying a foreign language is part of the program, so by the time you get…

— Costa Ronin

Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into…

— Camryn Manheim

I grew up bilingual, I grew up speaking Chinese in the home, Mandarin Chinese with my parents, and I learned English because I was…

— Leroy Chiao

I remember her telling me that if I wanted to be a star I had to know the language in the country I wanted…

— Juan Soto

Everyone is used to speaking a slightly different "language" with their parents than with their peers, because spoken language changes every generation - like…

— Elif Batuman

My parents were typical Asian parents, and they do, like all parents, want their children to be successful. They really encouraged my brother and…

— Lisa Su