Quotes About Education

I went to school. I went to Juilliard. You spend 13 hours a day on voice and speech. Now I realize why.

I did dancing and singing when I was little, and then when I was 12 years old my friends were taking speech and drama at school. They were private lessons, and I started doing that. Over the years everyone else dropped out and I just kept going. I loved it.

I remember in school once the teacher gave us a speech about anyone can make it if they try, and then she looked at me and said. 'I don't know what you are going to do, Georgie.'

You were taught how to do the things you needed to do. Dance, speech, fencing. They groomed people. If you were in a film, and the script wasn't working for you, they brought in screenwriters and fixed the scripts.

I majored in political science and speech communication.

I went to this arts high school in Greenville, S.C. In speech class, the teacher, a white man, would say, 'You're talking ghetto. Don't talk ghetto.' I'm not only offended, but I'm confused because while there's nothing wrong with people who come from the projects or the ghetto, that's actually not my experience.

I don't know how many speeches I have given saying, 'No child worse off.'

I hated history in school. I couldn't understand why one has to learn, what someone did hundred years ago. Battles, speeches, forming a nation - was something that bored me.

In the last century, I earned my living as a librarian, and I loved it. I'd have to take some classes to get up to speed with 21st-century librarianship.

One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.

When I was in high school, I fell under the spell of that crazy idea that if you're interested in the arts, you can't be interested in science.

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

When every high school graduate can spell the word, 'inauguration,' let's put lampshades on our heads and listen to his speeches until Obama's voice gives out.

I still can't spell anything, but I can bust out two-dollar words.

Other kids could read, other kids could write, other kids could spell, they could do math. I felt like an alien. I felt like an outcast. I felt like, 'What is going to happen to me?'

It took me a while to learn how to spell my own name.

I was the fastest typist in my school, and I had an obsession with spelling and memorizing.

I am better at math than spelling.

I was diagnosed with dyslexia when I was seven, and it was a bit of a struggle to begin with. It was a challenge as I began my school career - spelling and reading was something I couldn't really get my head around.

I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar.

I cheated once on a spelling test. I didn't know how to spell period. I leaned over the desk and looked at someone else's paper. I was probably ten or something like that.

There were certainly no spells at my school. More like a smack in the mouth.

There were no spells at my school, just a smack in the mouth.

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.