Quotes About Education

I learnt basic cookery by watching my mum.

Mum was an absolutely determined woman. She was determined I would have a good education, and they went without all sorts of things to ensure it.

When I was 13, I won a scholarship to boarding school. My parents let me choose whether to go, and I decided I wanted to. Afterwards, I went to Cambridge to study law - in a way, I was carrying the academic hopes of my family, as Mum and Dad left school at 14.

Mum and Dad sent us to a bilingual school, so we had half the lessons in English and half in French. But I remember being hugely lost.

I always knew I wanted an educational background, and my mum and dad were quite big on that.

But it's funny, I really was quite introverted as a child. I just liked music, so mum and dad bought me a piano when I was seven - I actually got up to Grade Seven at the London College of Music on piano.

We are Punjabis from Amritsar, though I was born and brought up in Mumbai and did my Bachelors in Mass Media, specializing in advertising and marketing.

I did my BMS from Bhavan's College in Mumbai and a post-graduate diploma in journalism and mass communication.

When I moved to Mumbai for college, it was bit of a culture shock.

My mother used to call me everyday after moving to Mumbai and would tell me to take up this course or join some distance learning course and to please do my Masters, but, yeah... I didn't do it.

If I can make you laugh and learn, I want to be like George Carlin and Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy and Sam Kinison and Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle. I want to be of that ilk, I don't want to just make you laugh, I want to make you think.

The brain is muscle. If you don't exercise it, it will get slow.

I love the Country Music Hall of Fame. I don't think it's just a hall of fame and it's not just a museum. It's a schoolhouse. It's a place where people from all across the world can come and learn about this great genre that we're making a living out of.

Shouldn't a great museum foster serious seeing before all else?

Dr. Margaret Oda, a true trailblazer in education, served as Honolulu school district superintendent and was the driving force behind the middle-school concept and the first chairwoman of the Japanese American National Museum.

Even though education was key in my family, I had no access to museums or art where we lived. I was a bit starved.

I do not approve of museums trying just to get people to come in. Whistler was very, very clear on this.

There are too many war museums.

I believe in the democratization of the arts. What do I mean by that? I think museums, with some exceptions, have a responsibility to educate a much broader public.

My parents were all about education. My mother was a librarian - she retired after 30 years - and she made sure that we were always at museums, that we went to plays.

Restaurants are a much easier way to introduce Americans to a culture than getting them into museums.

I love going to museums.

Television was restricted by my parents. They encouraged reading more than anything. It wasn't done in a let's-get-educated kind of way, it was: 'This looks like it might be fun so let's do it.' There were a lot of castles, art galleries, museums and mountains to climb.

I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.