Quotes About Education

It wasn't popular for college athletics to embrace Title IX.

Title IX came along and changed a lot of things for the better, but nevertheless, it meant that money became more important.

When I got my first VP title at 26, my parents finally stopped asking when I was going to get my law degree.

During the 1980s, when Japan's economy was roaring and people were writing books with titles like 'Japan is Number One,' most Japanese college students didn't make the effort to become fluent in English.

I teach a lot of graduate creative writing classes, and on the first day, I like to go around the room and ask everybody what's the last book you've read that you really loved. And all of the women tend to give me chick lit titles. And to me, that's sort of disappointing because it's their only exposure to fiction somehow.

I'm not really a book person, to be honest.

I like books. I read a lot, to be honest.

To be honest, I never went to school for acting, and I never learned to break down a script. I took acting classes my whole life, but they never taught me anything about acting. They just taught me about myself.

We owe it to our children to be honest about the world and to provide them with material written specially for them.

I'm not that big of a reader, to be honest.

Democrats and all public servants just need to be honest. If we have schools that aren't working ... we need to face the facts and fix them.

I've - to be honest with you, I've never had an acting lesson. But I've been at drama school for 50 years.

I think that allowing the nation to become so ignorant about food has been such a backward step - and to be honest I don't think there should be a School Food Trust. It shouldn't be necessary.

A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in five minutes.

Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that passion for stories to our children. It's not about testing and reading schemes, but about loving stories and passing on that passion to our children.

My education was doing good plays and also stinkers. When you do a stinker, you learn how to act. I like having to audition. It's nice to do rehearsals. But it's with an audience that you get to love it!

Canberra was my home for many years, and there's a lot to love about it. It has a small population with a strong sense of community and is top-heavy with interesting, highly educated, socially progressive people - the opposite of the stereotypical image of dull public servants.

Seeing the world is the best education you can get. You see sorrow, and you also see great spirit and will to survive.

There are two kinds of students: those who study and work to survive, while others who want to be achievers.

In Peru, there is no theatre that produces an annual opera season, and though there is one orchestra in Lima, it's always struggling to survive. We shouldn't have just one orchestra, we should have 15, we should have 50! And you should start to build this from the children.

I always felt I needed to teach to survive.

I always studied because I knew I had to. I needed to survive and take care of my mother.

When you don't educate the people, you're crippling them. You are, you're not giving them ways to survive.

From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young breathing time to master the things they will need to know in order to survive as adults.