Quotes About Education

We need a world class institution which will create leaders out of the children who have not had a good start in life.

I definitely want to make it very clear to everybody that the educational institution that we have, the school that Will and I have, is not a Scientology school. And that, you know, I know there's been, you know, a lot of buzz around that idea and that it is not my desire to, you know, teach Scientology at all.

Shake any institution of higher learning, and a dozen boycotters will fall out of it.

It's impossible for any institution to compete unless you can afford world class faculty.

For the first time in American history, it's not clear whether or not it's smart for a 17-year-old to enroll in college. It absolutely depends on the debt load and the quality of the institution. That is a change from the way things always were and, frankly, the way things always should be. It should always be a good idea to go to college.

The success of SSN in South India inspired us to create an institution in North India.

I think a lot of people have grown up with the idea that they can't learn things themselves. They think they need an institution to provide them with knowledge and teach them how to do things. I couldn't disagree more.

There is a disconnect in education and work. And corporates don't do a great job of skilling. In future, corporates and educational institutions will work closely.

Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.

I think I've come through the art-industrial complex - I've been educated in some of the best institutions and been privy to some of the insider conversations around theory and the evolution of art.

Today, the Americans have developed a new culture in science based on the slavery of graduate students. Now, graduate students of American institutions are afraid... He's got to perform. The post-doc is an indentured labourer.

There are only a handful of educational institutions that can be called emblems of a Thinking India.

Without any formal personal finance instruction in our high school or college curricula, many college seniors who graduate in the red will continue to make common financial mistakes that only exacerbate their debt burdens.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

Sometimes I think people confuse rote learning with traditional conceptual instruction.

From an early age, I tried to take in all the instructions of all the coaches I had.

They've got so many Latin players we're going to have to get a Latin instructor up here.

The great benefactors of individuals and of communities are the enlightened educators: the wise-teaching, mental and moral instructors and exemplars of our times.

My mother took me to every kind of dance instructor.

When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instrument. But it's all degraded since then. I do not know what kind of nation we are that is cutting art, music, and gym out of the public-school curriculum.

Every teacher that I've ever had, that I still remember their name, made me laugh. I feel like comedy is the best instrument to teach.

I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education.

I don't play any instruments, but I do read a lot.

It's good to see more young people playing instruments.