Quotes About Education

I would like to say to children, 'Don't stop drawing. Don't tell yourself you can't draw.' Everyone can draw. If you make a mark on a page, you can draw.

I collect books and I have some really, really old schoolbooks, and God is mentioned on every single page.

Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes a day, her finger going along the page, and I learned to read. Eventually, by the time I was four and a half, she could iron and I could sit there and read the 'True Romance.' And that was wonderful.

Miss America is a scholarship pageant, and they actually define themselves as a talent pageant.

At school, I would read the City pages before I read the sports pages.

In 1978, when I was 17 and in my first year at university, I read approximately 3,500 pages of Dickens.

Once upon a time, I sat in my mother's lap as she turned the pages of Golden Books, and I gradually learned to read.

If I'd had the chance, I'd like to have completed my degree before going full-time, and sports journalism was something that always interested me. Dad used to buy a paper, and I always turned straight to the sports pages.

I actually tried to learn the dictionary at one point. It didn't work; I only got through the first few pages.

Beginning in middle school, the era of wide-margined, Bible-paged anthologies, short stories develop unpromising associations - and these associations often linger through college, when stories become the things distributed in Xeroxes missing entire pages of line-endings.

I think when I was 7, at school they got us all to write the story of Joseph and his brothers. I got a bit carried away and wrote 12 pages - everybody else wrote a page. The teacher was so impressed by it that she put it up on the wall for parents' evening. I thought, 'Oh, this is something that I really like that I also seem to be quite good at.'

My father paid for my education; then he made it clear that I was on my own.

I wouldn't be here if it were not for the grant system that paid for me to go to art school - because my parents couldn't have afforded it.

Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability.

The most fun is getting paid to learn things.

The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world.

My head works a little faster than people around me sometimes and it can be quite painful. It was a problem for me in school because I couldn't sit down long enough. I couldn't concentrate. So I didn't go to classes very much.

Learning is effortless. Learning is a painless process. Learning is something we do naturally!

When I was four or five years old, my grandfather showed me how to build things, paint, saw. Through years of fixing bikes, repairing lawn mowers, I learned how things work.

Why sit on your butt watching 'Jersey Shore' when you can learn to paint a beautiful picture?

I learned to paint in a historical method. First through watercolours and then through oil. Then, when I went to college and to the school of architecture, I took up modern painting.

My dad painted cars for a living, and my mom graduated from college when I was a college freshman myself.

Compared with my brother, I always felt like Richard III, some clever humpbacked thing who surpassed him in the end. He was the one who read books, but I became the writer. He painted and drew, but I was the one who got accepted by the High School of Music and Art.

I began drawing when I was nearly 3, and after finishing the sixth grade, I left school to paint and was tutored at home. My father didn't think a formal education was necessary for a painter.