Quotes About Education

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.

I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That's where she had gone and kept raving over their art department.

Don't shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world's work, for it all affects you and yours.

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.

Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.

It looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from school art lessons.

So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.

Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.

Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.

When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

I don't have technique because I never learnt any.

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art.

Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable.

The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.

I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.

The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.

We are cutting things kids like-music, art, and gym classes; stuff that kept me in school. This country can't survive without you kids. It's all about you kids.

Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

My objective in teaching my pupils is that they should be fitted for any kind of art.

No one, though has to go to college to make or understand or enjoy art. Wonderful artists and critics - some of the best - have educated themselves.

The fine arts thing at college was always too much for me to think about. What I was more involved in was being successful at arts school.

Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.