Quotes About Education

I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off.

I went to Cal Arts. I went to art school.

I was probably the worst calculus student in the history of my high school.

I went to college for about a year in California.

I teach intermittently, and while I enjoy it, I don't find that it's a calling for me.

It's the best gift any teacher could possibly get, to go back to where you came from and offer knowledge and camaraderie.

I'm staggered when I look back at how, when I got to Cambridge, I didn't know anything of the world.

I got into Cambridge and it all went downhill.

There is just so much beauty in Cambridge. It's wonderful.

At Cambridge, there was a completely unintimidating culture, and there were no class divisions among the students.

I want to be behind the scenes, and learn more. What cameras to use, what lenses to use, what shots I want to get. And it takes time, so being on movies and sets, I just learn.

The rule was I had to go to college, and I couldn't even go to theater camp.

And it's been one of my big sort of campaigns throughout my career, really, is to sort of make art accessible but without dumbing it down. You know, art - the more you know about it, the more you enjoy it.

I love camping out, I love teaching tennis.

There's a big thing in Canada that parents need to talk to their children about drugs and sex. I don't think talking to your kids about war is any less important than that.

I didn't know anything about breast cancer when I got it.

I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.

Nobody is a born captain. He learns with time.

I thought of school as a captive audience. It gave me a chance to work on my material.

My father was a sheep shearer, so I grew up in a caravan; we'd go around from shearing shed to shearing shed. My mother always wanted us to be educated, so I went to a school.

I got my first library card, for Hendon Library in north London, when I was two years old.

Back in the 1980s, you could learn how to add memory cards to your PC in a Radio Shack.

Athletics weren't really in the cards in my family - books, not body.

At school in the 1970s, no one cared about bullying. I spent the first four years being the apple of the teachers' eye and being bullied for it.