Quotes About Education

I like to be in 'The Walking Dead,' and I like to play video games and just hang out with my friends and try to be as normal as possible, so going to college would be another really cool, normal experience in my life.

Kids just don't read any more. They spend much more time with video games. It's just hard to get kids to read anything. Book sales have dropped dramatically, too. I think 90% of the books are bought only by 5% of the US population.

I didn't know much about video games.

I absolutely believe in the power of innovative entrepreneurship on every level. That's why I am exploring ways to improve our education system by making it as effective as a private tutor and as engaging as video games.

Growing up, I was restricted at home from playing video games until I reached university.

We played video games and read books, and we went to public school. And yeah, we went to amusement parks. We did all of those things, but we also - that was all sort of organized around this nationwide picketing campaign.

Digital television, satellite radio, videogames, iPods - so much media. Do books even matter anymore?

I am so disturbed by kids who spend all day playing videogames.

My tutorial videos are educational, but they're goofy - I'm just being myself.

Pep Guardiola is like going to university. I spent a year with him at City, learning something new every day. On the playing field, watching videos or at any time, when he approaches you and explains things to you. He has no problem teaching someone at 34 years old, as I was, like someone who is 18. He is a great teacher.

The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.

Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was.

Dropping the news to my parents that I was skipping my 'dream education' at Chalmers to sit at home recording videos while playing video games was not easy.

Instead of watching cartoons when I was little, I had Russian ballet videos from, like, the 1950s and 1940s.

Raised on Bill Nye videos, LEGOs, and CD-ROMs of dinosaurs, I was a lump of nerdy clay waiting to be molded. 'Mythbusters' came to me at a critical time, and it transformed me into who I am today.

In addition to showing our customers what to wear, we also educated them on how to wear it by launching The Closet and utilizing the beauty bar, where our style experts provided videos with tips to educate and inspire.

Back-to-school videos always do really well for me.

I have parents coming to the live show saying that they watch my videos with their kids. I have teachers saying they have used the videos with their students.

When I had to have a little seizure, I looked up videos of people having seizures. I remember looking up symptoms and what happens to your body. You kind of just lock up and I had to prepare for that. A lot.

Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need that teacher to create software, videotape themselves, answer questions, let your computer or the iPad teach algebra... The hallmark of any good technology is that it destroys jobs.

I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.

I now have plans to create a school for singers in Vienna, and I would love to found one in the Middle East, too, if possible.

I'm sure that being an applicant from the American School in Vienna helped get me into all seven colleges I applied to.

My mother was one of the first women admitted to Vienna University and her word was law.