Quotes About Education

I was a directing student and a production design student at Carnegie Mellon. I went in as a production design student and became a directing student.

I got into the Shanghai Drama Institute because my parents, like all parents, want their children to have good grades and to go to a good college. I became a college student because of them.

I was a good little boy and a good student. I've never been arrested.

I did a lot of student acting when I was young.

The new American dream is one of responsibility. What is the bottom-line number that you're going to be able to pay back toward a student loan responsibly if you're doing it yourself after you have a job? That dictates the amount of money you can borrow. That dictates the school you can go to, if you can even go to a four-year college at all.

I wasn't a good student in high school. I mean, I got through it, but unless it had something to do with music, it didn't really interest me.

Enacted under President George W. Bush's administration with the promise to focus on individual student achievement and overall school performance, No Child Left Behind was heralded as groundbreaking. And in some ways, it was.

A student who has excelled in the classroom should have the opportunity to attend college and become a productive, taxpaying member of society.

I was a brilliant student. I always try to be the best.

I wasn't a great student. Just give me a school with no grades, and I'll be happy.

When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease.

I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.

I am acting at university, and I have really enjoyed doing student drama.

If you're last in your class at Harvard, it doesn't feel like you're a good student, even though you really are. It's not smart for everyone to want to go to a great school.

As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction.

I was your C student. I paid attention in the classes that were about how to get elected.

Access to high-quality education is way too limited. The United States has the world's most admirable higher education system, and yet it is very restrictive. It's so hard to get into. I never got into it as a student.

I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.

The nice thing about student drama is that you're allowed to get things wrong, because it doesn't mean no one will ever hire you again.

I went to high school in the 1970s and was a real daydreamer and not the best student.

I was a horrible student. I really hated school.

Dr. Ben Carson has the most moving personal narrative in modern presidential politics. His mother, one of 24 children, had only a third-grade education. She was married at age 13, bore Ben and his brother, and then raised the boys as an impoverished single mother in Detroit. As a young boy, Carson was a terrible student.

I went to uni and then drama school afterwards and lived in quite a few student houses.

It is striking to see the magnitude of impact mentorship and tutoring can have on student performance and young lives.