Quotes About Education

I really had to think and learn about musical intervals.

I've always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls private Catholic school, and one of their biggest things was musical theater.

I went to school for musical theater, and that is such a huge, central part of me.

My background is musical theater. I have a BFA from the University of Florida.

I don't know exactly what kind of training musical theater actors get, but I never had that.

I went to the University of Michigan and have a BFA in Musical Theatre.

I have a Bachelor's of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre.

I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.

I grew up doing musicals in my childhood at school, along with all the plays I used to be involved in.

In school, I always sang in choirs. In fact, I used to do a lot of musicals in the youth theatre that I was a member of between the ages of 16 and 18.

When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.

I don't claim to be a musician, I didn't go to Julliard.

It's funny to find there are still people around who think if a musician has schooling, it automatically makes him a lesser jazz player. But you don't learn jazz in school.

I had a degree in economics but also thought of myself as a musician.

If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades - one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side.

I would like to find a way in which people in Saudi Arabia could learn that they can be something other than a Muslim. Some people may not realize this. Of course, there is the problem that you can get in trouble or get stoned.

Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that.

Liberals, conservatives, Muslims, Jews, Christians, and I find - I think education is something that can bring us together.

The root cause of xenophobia in Russia is not religious differences between Muslims and Christians. Nor is it crime. The root cause is the terrible education that children acquire on the street, at school, and at home.

My friend Harry Belafonte is an activist and musician, an extraordinary man who has dedicated his life to human rights. He taught me the power of words and that music can be used to heal and educate people.

Coming back to Delhi is always special. This is the place I'd started my journey from and became independent. Be it my career or my education, I learnt everything about life from this city, and it has made me who I am today.

I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.

I always say that my motto when it comes to children is: My job is not to get you into Harvard, it's to get you to heaven.

Every time I'd do a play, my grades would get better because I was doing something that fed my soul. It took me a couple of years to recognize that the hobby was actually the calling.