Quotes About Education

It's very hypocritical to constantly say, 'We want to keep our kids close,' then send them home with so much homework that family time becomes nonexistent.

I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.

Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.

I finish two books a week, mostly nonfiction.

Stop the nonsense about 'student-athlete.'

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.

While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.

It was sort of assumed, from the time I was born, really, that I would go to college. That's sort of the way that Jewish families in New Jersey handled things; that was the norm.

I cried every day of first grade. In class. Which meant I ended up getting comfortable emoting in a place where it wasn't the norm.

I thought: 'I'm going to go to college. I'm going to have a normal 9-to-5 job.'

Both me and my parents wanted me to lead a normal life, work in a normal '10 to 5' job and put my education to good use.

That's one of the great things about being an actor. You get to learn all these things normal people don't get to learn.

I started acting when I was young, and I didn't go to drama school. It was always something that I did alongside going to school and being a normal person.

I try to make sure that I still get a normal life and go to school - do all the normal things. I still want to have a childhood.

Normally when I have students over, we sit in the house and look at the fields to try to catch a glimpse of a bobcat hunting.

I wanted to really just understand... how could a whole generation of children who were just children at the time - boys riding their bikes, flying kites, and doing all kinds of things they normally do - how could they suddenly be taught a completely different curriculum?

There's nothing wrong with furthering education and working your brain in a different way than you normally work it.

A lot of Americans do not have an appreciation for our history. They do not understand the Constitution, why we have these norms. And at some point, yes, the media has some responsibility, but so does the public.

In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority.

In 1941 I finished at Allison Intermediate School (grades 7-9), and started at North High School, commuting by bicycle about 5 miles from home to school.

I grew up a little north of New York City and went to high school at Regis, an all-boys tuition-free high school in Manhattan.