Quotes / Education Mama

Anime & Manga

Study! Study! Study!

— Golden Boy

Comic Books

Alice: (furiously chases her son Cory to his room) C'S! ALL C'S! HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?
Cory: (barricades his bedroom door) C is average! That's better than half the grades!
Alice: (tries to barge in) UGHHHH!!
Cory: Everyone I know is getting way worse than C's!
Alice: (pretends to be sad)
Cory: Aw, jeez.
Alice: Is it... so much to ask? For our little boy to get into a good high school? To have a... future...?
Cory: (lightly opens the door) Mom... hey... it's just a progress report. I'll bring my grades up...
Alice: (barges in) YES YOU WILL!
Cory: AHHHH!
Alice: All last year, you kept saying, "I'm studying now, my grades will improve." We trusted you to spend your time wisely. But clearly that was a mistake. This time... we're making sure.

— Freestyle

Films — Animation

Today, honour student. Tomorrow, UN Secretary General!

— Ming Lee, Turning Red

Live-Action TV

Tiffany: You've been pushing me too hard!
Tiffany's Mom: Pushing you too hard?! I'm only doing for you what my mother did for me, and I became a world-renowned scientist. I'm this close to discovering the cure for sleep!
Lou: [confused] ...Is that a disease?
Tiffany's Mom: Anything that takes away eight hours from studying cannot be good for you.

— Bunk'd

"I'll keep on grounding him until he graduates from Harvard!"

— Lois, Malcolm in the Middle

Tabletop Games

It was fun at first: classes at the special school, a computer of your very own when you were four, classes at the university when you were seven. You didn't even mind not having friends your own age; other children didn't understand anything you tried to talk to them about. It was when your parents kept putting off the promised trip to Disney World that you realized they were using you and your mind. There was always one more class, one more seminar, one more science fair, or one more talk show. What really brought it home was the way they reacted when you wanted to take classes that weren't hard sciences. They wanted you to concentrate on being a world-famous scientist, they gave you a line about the good you could do for mankind - but you knew what they really wanted was to bask in the glory of raising a child genius.

For a year, you played them off against one another, getting them to compete for your affections. They were well on their way to divorce when the Lasombra took you.

— The Child Prodigy, Vampire: The Masquerade - Clanbook: Lasombra

Video Games

My beautiful handsome baby is gonna grow up to be the greatest doctor ever.... Right? RIGHT? ...You better.

—Jason Sunray, Annabelle: Projection

"I'm doubling your homework."

— Dizzy, Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR-

Web Video

I'm a teacher first, and a mother second. Also a wife.

— Chi-Chi, Dragon Ball Z Abridged

Western Animation

Anne: (having just discovered that her mother has a "workout room" filled with self-made mannequins of her) Wait, why is this one dressed like a doctor?
Mae: A mom can dream, can't she?
Anne: Why do I get the feeling I'm not living up to your expectations?

— Amphibia, "Anne-sterminator"

Japanese Father: (Walks into his son's room) You doctor yet?

Japanese Son: No Dad, I'm twelve.

Japanese Father: Talk to me when you doctor! (Slams door)

— Family Guy

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