Quotes About Education

Our goal is to see Big History become a normal part of high school curricula. I'd love to see it being taught in lots of languages. A global course.

I feel that working now is the way for me to learn things, whether it's languages or another activity.

I have an interest in languages and make an effort to learn.

I wish I knew more languages.

I never wanted to be an actor. I just wanted to learn languages and travel and see the world.

I've seen after-school clubs where parents, teachers and children have got together to write books. They were in a mix of languages; the books told stories of what the parents got up to when they were children and how they arrived in the area, whether it was from another country or from the other side of town.

Education is largely run at the state level.

I dropped out of college for the last time in 1977.

I decided to study music my last year in high school.

I was a late bloomer when it came to reading. My parents didn't really read. Neither one of my parents went to college. I did not grow up with any literature in the house at all.

I wasn't interested in anything at school apart from making sure I had the latest fashion on my body and making sure that I had a bit of dollar.

They do not know very good Latin, these botanists.

My father made me take three years of Latin in high school.

I was really good at Latin at school, and because I was good at it, I got more interested and got better at it.

Latin AP was a struggle. There were a lot of people in class drawing pictures during that, but I took it seriously.

Latin is an international language.

When I was a kid, I thought I would be an entrepreneur and maybe at some point go into law school.

I went to law school.

I was the girl who kind of went straight from high school to college. Then straight from college to law school.

I was actually going to law school in 1972.

My parents wanted me to go to law school!

I worked my way through law school.

My dad is an attorney. I've always been interested in it. My sons are probably going to law school.

I debated between law school and divinity.