Quotes About Education

I teach a 14-week semester, and one of the things I do when I have to teach literature is, for the first half hour of the class, I have the students write the beginning of a new story every week. At the end of the semester, even if they have learned nothing about literature, at least they'll have 14 beginnings that they can take with them.

One of the things that I have my students do is to take a look at English-language newspapers from all around the world in order to see the different ways in which the same story might be told.

I read several books at one time.

I like working one-on-one with someone, and I think that to go to a school of acting isn't really my thing.

Because of Murray State's size, I was able to receive more one-on-one time with my instructors and also more stage time. This isn't necessarily the case at larger institutions.

A one-size-fits-all lecture is not the way to go about education.

Federal government has forced a one-size-fits-all model on our education system.

Harvard pulsates with life and thought of all kinds, and religion should not be left out of its ongoing discussions.

Every time I work, it's an educational process because I learn by watching other actors. My career is always going to be an ongoing study.

We are running a very strong and ongoing marketing campaign to get families to send their children to school, particularly girls.

Lord knows there's a lot of bad news in the world today to get you down, but there is one big thing happening that leaves me incredibly hopeful about the future, and that is the budding revolution in global online higher education.

At the end of the day, I think the more online educators there are, I think the better off the whole world is.

I took up a few sessions online to learn to play flute.

I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.

What person doesn't search online about their disease after they are diagnosed?

Online is ridiculous. Places like Ohio State bring people here together, and students teach each other.

Now my son Travis wants to finish all of his schooling online and be a full-time actor. I said, 'Hey, it's not all riding bicycles and egging cars and houses. Why don't you go finish the seventh grade, and we'll talk about it later.'

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

The only difference between your local college and a Christian seminary is that the latter is more honest.

Short of the dishonest, the illegal, and the cruel, there's only one thing my son could do that would really disappoint me: not liking reading.

I read books for exams at school, but only because I had to read them, and really didn't enjoy it one little bit! The only time I did enjoy it was when I was asked to read out loud in front of the class, as I then used it as an acting exercise!

I've always liked to watch myself onscreen because that's how I learn.

It's very important to me to give something back - to pass on my know-how, to give all the lessons I learned onto the next generation so they don't make the same mistakes.