Quotes About Education

When I was a kid, they bussed us down to a screening of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' in an old theater, and it was just a great experience.

When I went to school, I was in the same mode. I did the things I enjoyed, what I loved.

I'm a gypsy: no education, no schooling, nothing. I don't care what people think of me. I don't care about being a hero, a role model, a champion.

I never set out to be a role model, but I guess parents like it because I am dedicated to school.

I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.

I've learned that you learn best by modeling. If you want people to learn, do it!

I went to the Professional Children's School in New York, and I started modeling because I could do that until I actually figured out what I wanted to do, and it gave me the opportunity to travel.

I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school.

I never thought modeling would become my career. I thought it was something I'd do to pay my way through college.

I started modeling when I was about 2 or 3 years old; I started with Baby Guess, and I did Guess Kids, and that was the extent of my modeling career as a kid. I took all of my elementary, middle and high school years off to focus on school and sports.

I almost had to exhaust myself at modeling before I could say, 'O.K., I'm ready for school.'

My parents raised me to put school first and modeling and extracurriculars second.

When I came back to go back to school on my time off from modeling, I went to Palomar.

Modelling, fashion and film have all encouraged me to learn more about issues and to feel empowered enough to do something about them.

While I was in college, I was intrigued by modelling and also won the best model award in my college.

If you take existing ideas and make them affordable and scalable, you substantially change business models. India lacks an education system that is research- and creativity-oriented.

As for my role models... you know, I'm an immigrant, so we didn't grow up with too much TV. My parents were like, 'You must read your books.'

In England, we'd leave school at 15 and go on to a college, and I went to further education in a town called Welling Garden City. I fully immersed myself in bohemia there, which included poetry and modern art, jazz, philosophy, social radicalism.

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.

What I mind in modern society very much is the awful lack of grammar.

You want educated women if you are going to have a modern society.

I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.

The modern world is about knowledge and it's our job as mums to help our daughters.