Quotes About Education

It's hard not to want to become Ken Burns at times. I'm interested in being a Ken Burns who reaches that 17-year-old who goes to the multiplex just to see a good story well-told. And if there's history in it, all the better.

I retired in 2016 as a Lieutenant Commander and immediately went to the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

I did modern English and American literature at Kent University, with no Chaucer and no Middle English: a perfect course.

I was in law school at the University of Kentucky and realized I didn't really like law school, so I took a creative writing course for something different.

I learned a lot at Kentucky.

I didn't know any successful actors in Kenya, so I felt like I could get away with going to college to study film more easily than I could with saying, 'I want to be an actor.' That's what I did.

Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.

Education is the key to a bright future.

I was like a hermit; I didn't really have a lot of homies I would kick it with. I was in high school, I was failing all my classes, and I wanted to make music.

Even in school, I used to get kicked out in every class except music. I was always at the top of my class in music.

I was into sports in high school, but I got kicked out of Richmond High at 17, so I never graduated. However, I still get invites to the class reunions... I don't know that I want to see how everyone looks now.

I got kicked out of high school, so I couldn't get into very many colleges.

I got kicked out of every school I ever went to.

I got kicked out of school because I was wilding.

I got kicked out of Harvard after three weeks.

I dropped out or got kicked out of four high schools.

I got kicked out of high school, went to 3 different high schools and summer school and extra night school just so I could maybe graduate and try to make it up, because I flunked pretty much my entire freshman year, mainly because I just never showed up.

It's so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs... we should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics.

You know, you've got to be careful with how you educate your kids in rock'n'roll fashion.

I want to inspire kids.

I always try to show there's a way for the kids that feel like they're lowlives. In anything you want, you can be the greatest at it, even without school, if you want. Know your route.

I was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read.

People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction.

School was never for me, kinda.