Quotes About Education

Being in a class with kids, meeting new people, and borrowing notes from other students - I've never done that before. I've always had to fend for myself.

I remember, even in college, reading Cliffs Notes about a book and thinking to myself, 'Geez, that sounds like a good book. I should probably read it.'

I think in my mum's house, I still have my revision notes from my GCSE anthology book!

I wish I finished music school, because then I feel like I could talk more about the dissonant notes.

I wasn't the best student, and for some reason, I always got music. While other people were having trouble figuring out notes on a page, I could listen to it once and play it back.

I'd like to think that my mentors, I've had the highest of education and one thing I've always noted, they were always writing stuff down, taking notes.

Black youth, in general, have no understanding of our past. Young black people who don't know who Martin Luther King Jr. was, don't know nothin'.

Nor, in our own country, must we fail to take notice of the establishment of School Boards.

You cannot help but notice that schools that take music seriously tend to be more academically successful.

As someone who went to school in the '70s and '80s, I can't say that I noticed much of a 'medals for all' culture myself.

I have noticed that most of the successful businessmen are not that educated. But they are the ones who hire highly educated employees to work for them.

My students are noticed by the people I respect from the quality of their work.

When I was in 2nd or 3rd grade, the drama teacher at my deaf school noticed that I liked to tell stories and had really good expression. I could entertain people with my stories.

People have not really noticed community colleges, but they are where students really become successful.

Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what's wrong with the school system.

My kids grew up here. My son and daughter both went to Notre Dame.

I graduated from Notre Dame.

I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.

I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels.

I tell you, once a girl's got a dose of novels she's a pushover for iambic pentameter.

I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.

When it comes to writers, I'm a huge fan of Ian McEwan. I've never taken a writing course, but reading and deconstructing his novels has been as good a lesson as any.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

The very first film, documentary that I made, was called 'The First Year.' It was 11 years ago and I followed these five novice teachers. I was actually with them on their first day of school and followed them for their first year.