Quotes About Education

I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.

I didn't go to a normal high school. It was for people in the performing arts.

I went to a performing arts high school, we learned Shakespeare, I did 'Fences.' When you train, you can do anything.

When the uncapped potential of a student meets the liberating art of a teacher, a miracle unfolds.

Even though I loved to write, I never liked English lit. class very much. I think it ruins books when you dissect them too much. I liked my art classes best.

When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program.

In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.

When I was three or four, I was really good at drawing and painting, and everyone used to say, "You're going to go to art college." I didn't really know what that meant.

My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.

I was engaged in all the required courses of math and geometry, but the area that I blossomed in was the art program.

I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.

As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled upon when I was offered a record deal.

I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts degree with no programmes, majors or minors.

It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.

Lexicography is a chastening as well as an illuminating and fascinating art.

I deplore the tendency, in some institutions, to go directly toward training for a trade or profession or something and ignoring the liberal arts. It is the foundation of education.

I'm not intelligent enough to be a doctor, and kind of hands down you can't argue with the worth of that. But I don't really have an opinion about the worth of making art.

Art can only be taught by artists.

If a nonartist teaches a subject called art, it is nonart.

The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.

Sometimes, I even learn new techniques from my students. Although I am still a student at the Art Institute, I think that I have learnt a lot from the classes that I have already taken.

Unfortunately, there are very few facilities which offer courses in the arts. Not all the secondary schools offer the subject for CXC examinations.

I think the arts are very important for children growing up.

In fact, every day I'll read a chapter of some art book. I don't know why. It's just a habit.