Quotes About Education

My parents immigrated to this country from Jamaica with no more than a fifth-grade education.

I was actually born in deep rural Jamaica and came to Kingston as a high school girl.

I definitely know I'm going to be working a lot more with my foundation when it comes to developing the kids in Jamaica.

My mom is from Jamaica, and she was going to school in the morning, and in the evening she was working, and at night she would go to night school and then come in and go to sleep.

For a family to have five kids and to have emigrated from the West Indies, my father from Jamaica and my mother from Montserrat - it's not easy to provide for five kids let alone put three kids in AAA hockey, one being a goalie, and put two daughters through university.

I came here from Jamaica as a kid and didn't go to school, really, never had a great education. I was a little bit bad on the street, running around, doing this, doing that, and always getting into trouble. I was completely written off, so boxing has definitely saved my life.

I mean I met James Wan at film school. That's where we met. I didn't go to film school to find someone else to work with. I was thinking I would go and learn to direct and go and be a director like everyone else at school.

Some may argue that countries like Japan and China improved economically without English, but they, too, are learning English fast.

When I was at U.C.L.A., I decided I was going to go to Japan and learn Japanese.

I was born on a council estate with a mum who, despite doing everything she could for me, couldn't help me learn to read and write because she had never been taught herself. As the jargon would have it now, I was not 'school ready.'

I'm an advocate of music in schools. It's important to me that music is in as many schools as possible across this country and across the world. I think that it's a lost art form because kids aren't as exposed to it as maybe they used to be, or should be. I was exposed heavily to jazz and that's why I love it.

Grover Washington was my main influence, and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane.

The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.

I have a bachelor's and a master's in jazz.

Yeah, I grew up playing lots of jazz music in school.

I studied classical and jazz music and went to a music school.

I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.

The academy at Abidjan was my school of education. At 16, they sent me the boots and jersey with my name on the back. You can imagine how I felt: in the clouds.

Stockton University is a cornerstone of South Jersey.

Jesuits encourage an intellectual rigor in a way that I like.

In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.

My father was a Jewish immigrant who settled in Argentina and was left to his own devices at the age of 15. My mother was a teacher, herself the daughter of a poor immigrant family.

I'm Jewish. Went to a Jewish school.

I went to a private Jewish school before high school, and a lot of the kids had beautiful homes, but my parents don't really care about those kinds of things.