Quotes About Education

I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the best.

I had tutors, but education was just not a priority.

The list of costly services that supplement some children's public education is growing longer and now includes consultants, tutors, and test prep. That's in addition to the homework help some stay-at-home parents can afford to provide.

I was lucky I went to school in London because the tutors could see what to do. I knew I wanted to do something different. Why would I want to do what other people were already doing, because they would always do it better? I always wanted to work around the body. So throughout my college years, my work was quite free.

Across the Jewish community, the MLK Shabbat Suppers are part of Repair the World's multi-year effort to mobilize Jews across the nation to serve as tutors, mentors, and college access coaches for public school children.

When I started modeling at 15, there were no provisions for on-set tutors, and so I dropped out of school. Although I was one of the lucky ones who went on to a successful career as a model, as a child I should never have been forced to make that choice - between modeling and education.

Even if I had a tuxedo I wouldn't wear it to school.

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial.

The question for me was, could TV actually teach? I knew it could, because I knew 3-year-olds who sang beer commercials!

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.

For me, acting was a reward. I had to get good grades in order to act, in order to be on TV. I had to do well in school so I could work. To me, it was like an after-school activity, something to look forward to.

I said to my doctor at the beginning, 'I'm no good; I can't do anything. I'm dumb.' He suggested I try educating myself by listening to Boston's educational TV station. He said I had a perfectly good mind.

I think I got my education as a young boy from things I saw on TV.

On TV, teachers are comedically jaded. That's not how I saw them.

One of the things I hate about TV for kids is that it conescends to them.

I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor.

My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.

TV news is not very instructive.

I lived in Holland for one year when I was younger and, although they speak Dutch there, I learned a little bit of English while I was there, but really I learned from movies and TV series like '24' and 'Prison Break.'

I started working on a TV show in Australia, straight out of high school, so I missed the whole university experience.

I have fond memories of my childhood. I spent five wonderful years on a popular TV show, but I didn't have a normal childhood. I was tutored for grades 4-11.

I had a brilliant drama teacher while I was at Roland Park: Ann Mainolfi. But the school was mostly rich in academics. It wasn't like I was prepping myself for a life in acting. There, you prepped yourself to have a stable future. The school's piece de resistance is college prep - it didn't teach you how to audition for a TV show.

My dad was a copywriter on Madison Avenue at the same time as the TV show 'Mad Men' is set. My mom raised the kids and was a scholarship coordinator at a school. More importantly, dad was a writer and my mom an artist.