Quotes About Education

Mum got me involved in every activity under the sun - singing, dancing and drama classes at the Anna Scher theatre school.

I did take some cooking classes in high school. Boys weren't really supposed to take them. I had to risk being made fun of.

I am a serial class taker. I take classes for anything and everything!

I began acting when I was very young, maybe 5 or so? Just by going to acting classes and that sort of thing.

I loved some classes - math, history, that's pretty much it. I didn't love physical activities.

I was giving everything I had to classes, and I was getting a 2.6. I knew that wasn't going to get me into med school.

I never could make it to morning classes. I never felt like I needed to do it. I remember being in class, and saying, I don't care about this, I don't need to know this.'

I didn't really have the entire high school experience. I've been working since I was six years old, so I didn't go to the classic high school.

I come from a classical background.

Me, who's educated classically, I went toward rock music 'cause it was sort of a natural evolution from where I was playing with my brother. But I was always drawn back into classical music.

I grew up with a lot of classical music around.

My father didn't do a lot of direct education. My mother was the direct educator. She would put on these movies on American Movie Classics when we got cable, after my parents got divorced, which took like four or five years.

We don't teach kids how to think anymore. We're getting rid of the classics - high school is all about self-esteem.

When I left high school - I was younger than my classmates, just 17 - I knew I wanted to be an actress, but I thought, 'When I go to college, I'd rather study something else.'

How can we expect students to succeed when they're worried about where they'll sleep, what they'll eat, and how they'll connect to the classroom?

It's one thing to be sitting in a classroom and have a teacher tell you how to treat other people; it's a whole other thing to watch, week after week, somebody's life spelled out to you in an emotional way: That lesson is something that will stay with you forever.

You get on TV and you become more of a star and it makes it real hard to go back to school and sit in a classroom, put your hand up if you have a question or something.

At DonorsChoose.org, we believe that classroom teachers often know their students better than anybody else in the system and that their front-line experience gives them a special kind of wisdom.

A Socrates in every classroom.

Teachers who have committed their lives to the classroom deserve better than our politics has given them.

My first performance was in AP Calculus when they forced me up into the front of the classroom and made me sing a song, which was really scary, but it was fun.

I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.

I avoided as much work as possible in the classroom, but did all the work possible on the ball field.

I want to see us add more dollars to the classroom.