Quotes About Education

The American public does not know poets exist.

I grew up in Banaras on Kabir and other Hindi poets and then I got introduced to Faiz, Hasrat Mohani, Allama Iqbal and Majaaz. They took me to another facet of literature and drama.

If you're not on set, if you're not on stage, go to class. Find teachers you trust and who push you and who you respect as people. That's what you're getting with a teacher: a point of view. You end up taking those points of view and that turns into your point of view as an actor.

I've met seven homeschooling families through many, many extracurricular activities such as fencing. I don't have a point of view of homeschooling. For some families, homeschooling works.

If we can get kids talking about conservation and doing it, they can have a great influence on their parents by lecturing them and pointing the finger.

You can't go to medical school and come out and be like, 'I'm going to be a dog catcher.' That would be so pointless.

I think it's pretty pointless, my children learning to use a keyboard - we will just talk to our computers. Why would we not?

I'm a huge believer in learning anything from multiple points of view.

It wasn't until I got to college and had a lot of my ego beaten out of me... That's when I started to turn to literature as something deeper than a way to put up points.

Almost everyone who has claimed to know what kids need to learn or how they learn has turned out to be wrong.

I'm self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But that was my dream - to have class.

I skipped class a lot.

The reason there weren't any, I am surmising, is that a lot of Latin kids, Latino kids, in those days didn't have the money to take those kind of classes.

While I wasn't very good at much else in school, in my creative-writing classes or when we had to do some writing in my English classes, I tended to do better at it.

I took business classes as a back up but I made movies all the time. I would get my classes done in two days and then spend the rest of the time making my movies.

I dropped out of school and I never took acting classes.

I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.

I went to an all-boys high school, and they accepted girls in only the two A.P. classes.

After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn't even go to the classes.

I take classes to be a mortician.

I do a kind of homeschooling where some of it's on the computer and some of it's classes around the city. So sometimes I'll have a class in the morning or do school at home.

Had I to do it again, I would have been a math major, probably a double major, and did take a lot of math classes, but I would have taken a lot more.

I was always good at gym! Gym classes were good, but school really wasn't my thing, but I did it, got through it. It's definitely important.

I didn't really have a normal high school experience. I was home-schooled and went to a co-op, so basically a school with about maybe 200 other home-schooled kids that would come together for classes.