Quotes About Education

Instead of going to college, I spent my time out on the road learning how to be a better musician.

All through my senior year, luckily, I didn't have too many hard classes, just a lot of electives. I was able to spend most of my time at the practice space.

If I had it to do over, I might have finished school first, then devoted all my time to StumbleUpon instead of dividing my time between the two. In the end, however, it was probably good to take the time I did.

I spend a lot of my time just looking at words and grammar and writing things down that I don't know.

My time in documentaries was very educating, in terms of life experience as well as the filmmaking side of it.

It was the desire to see black girls and our experiences in the books that I was given to read at school that forced me to speak my truth. I launched #1000BlackGirlBooks, a book drive to collect the stories of women of color.

When I was in college at Amherst, my father asked me a favor: to take one course in economics. I loved it - for the challenge of its mysteries.

There are times when I wish I would have gotten a degree, but the past is history, and tomorrow's a mystery.

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

One of the biggest misconceptions about homeschooling, and the ones my friends seemed most concerned about, is that children won't socialise and will have a limited ability to communicate when they get older. I can honestly say this is a myth.

We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible.

Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.

I could do my own nails... I went to beauty school in the 11th grade. But why would I do that now?

We were so young when we started, quite naive and shy - we kind of knew what we were doing but didn't because we hadn't been stage schooled.

I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we got married and had three children.

Institutes should be named after these legendary artistes. Some institute should be named after Lata Mangeshkar.

I made a deadline for myself that if I wasn't earning a living being a musician by 'A Boy Named Goo,' I was going to get back to school, get a degree, and go on with my life - and enjoy the memories I had.

I could take you for a walk on the beach and I could point out just about any creature and give you their Latin names.

I want to be able to pick up a list of names of graduates from high schools and colleges in the city and to see that that list is longer than it was when I started in 2009.

Once I got into college, I discovered literature - in particular, multicultural literature. I just started to understand the power of story and narrative, and you know, like anyone else, I kind of wanted to do it, too.

When I was growing up, there was still that narrative of 'you finish school, you go and get married, you become somebody's wife and you get kids and tend to them.' I think it is really important to reach for something.

I think there is this narrative that if you are a black woman, and you are strong, and you are educated, it's like, 'Good luck getting a black man.'

I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.