Quotes About Education

As parents, we teach our kids about things we feel competent in. That's why so many parents don't teach their kids about money.

As our economy advances, educational attainment is going to keep Arizona competitive.

Being a classical musician, you can go to school for it; you can go get a degree. Even as a composer, there is a certain career path you can follow, but becoming a rock musician is a much more elusive career. How do you learn that or do that?

I need to study more. I need to educate myself more - and not just in music, in everything - but especially in music and composing.

I thought I was gonna get a doctorate in composition or be a composer and be at a university for the rest of my life, mostly because my parents are academics, and that was the logical thing to do.

When I was 11, I had just started my comprehensive school.

I went to a comprehensive school and didn't go to university.

Coming from a comprehensive school in Somerset, entertainment didn't seem like something that was open to you.

In the mid-1970s I worked at Vauxhall Manor school, a girls comprehensive in south London.

As we've come along, we've educated our audience, getting them to understand that brands do not compromise entertainment. For us, they enhance it. They enable it.

I've nothing against schools! I'm against compulsory schooling.

Were I to be appointed Secretary of Education, I'd issue a prospectus for a compulsory nationwide high school course called 'The American Experience in Art.'

Not every school in India has athletics as a compulsory sport. They should make it compulsory.

I went to a school where theatre was a compulsory subject.

I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.

Computer science education is important.

Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.

I grew up loving computers and math, actually. I also loved English literature and French, but I became obsessed with computers when the Apple II was coming out.

At 13, I concentrated on my school work and playing sports, which, to this day, is something I still believe is very, very important.

I still have a lot to learn. I'm concentrating on learning a lot more about music.

I was a film major with a concentration in animation.

I have a serious concern about middle-class families being able to afford college.

When I was 15, I did not know nothing about what concerned the world of music.