Quotes About Education

I trained as a writer before I became a lawyer. I was headed for a life as an English professor, but that just wasn't me. I'm not a scholar; I didn't have a scholar's attitude toward literature.

I was trained as a fine artist. I went to a progressive public school in Pennsylvania that developed these talents, but I was never able to apply to a decent college because I had no math, no science - I was allowed to just paint all day and write.

I was trained on piano - that was part of grade school and high school.

I trained at Juilliard so that I could do all kinds of genres, so that's what I'm trained to do.

Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.

There are amazing schools and amazing educators that are doing a wonderful job. And then there are a lot of educators that are not prepared to deal with inclusive education. They haven't been trained. It's really quite lovely and easy when you understand how to do it.

The downside to becoming a doctor, I think, is it's a very long process; four years of medical school, three years of internship, two years of residency, umpteen years of specialization, and then finally you get to be what you have trained almost all your life for.

Also, if we take back our schools and concentrate on improving them so our children get a better education, they will be better trained to compete for a job locally.

England is the country where I learned my profession. They are the ones that trained me, they are the ones that believed in me.

Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?

I love the way we do theatre in London: I love the fact that everybody is trained.

I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.

Most small-business owners have no financial education when they started. They weren't trained to be entrepreneurs.

We're trained in school to equate mistakes with bad grades - something to be avoided at all costs. The alpha makers were somehow able to dodge that. They think that mistakes are just part of the creative process and maybe even the best way to learn.

Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.

I started piano lessons when I was four; I was being classically trained at the Colburn School.

It's critical that states improve how teachers are trained, recruited, evaluated, compensated, advanced, and retained.

I was trained as a straight dramatist.

Let's focus on how we can take someone who is being poorly educated in an American public school and how they are poorly trained for a job, and put in place those opportunities for them to get that education, give their parents choice in education, make it real for them.

Personally, I had a great education. My mum was a trained teacher, a Montessori teacher, and I know that I could not have written 'Eragon' if I had gone into a public school system because I would have just been too busy attending classes and doing homework - I wouldn't have had the time to write.

I'm trained as a teacher; that's the only thing I've got a certificate for.

People - and dogs - are dying to be trained.

I trained in Toronto with a private acting teacher, who was wonderful, for years growing up.

I wasn't born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.