Quotes About Education

To go from working with a group of people in a sketch-comedy show on a small network, where it was all about just creating funny stuff, to being on a network show, and the pressures of that, and getting to know the new people who were involved in it. There was a learning curve for me. But it was an education.

It cannot be Pakistan of Quaid and Iqbal where children of the elite study in prestigious educational institutions while those of resourceless segments deprived of education due to difficulties.

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them through a few courses in business school.

In many ways, the very notion of school choice operates under a false pretense - an assumption that every child has the same set of choices to make and the same places to choose from.

I was really pretentious in a sense and was like, 'I'm going to drama school to learn the craft.'

I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still do.

During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.

I had some pretty good teachers. I learned how to play the game the right way.

All my kids were raised on computers: They were home-schooled on the Internet, so they're pretty good at that stuff. And I'm proud of them, but I don't really keep up with it.

I was always pretty good at school, but a lot of it was memorising, maybe cheating off your mates, stuff that gets you through.

I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school.

Before I got through high school I had attended 22 different schools. In the time before I was well acquainted with the latest school, I would amuse myself by drawing and found that I was pretty good at it.

I was not a good student; I was an average student. In order to play basketball and baseball, I had to go to school every day. And so I was pretty good in terms of attending school.

I learn from teaching. Having to break things down and explain them makes me a better dancer.

When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.

I'm a phys ed major: that's ballroom dancing and handball.

There's a danger of some of the best people saying, 'I don't want a career in science.'

Education is dangerous - every educated person is a future enemy.

We are born with freedom and hope, but often that's dashed because of our color. But in school, I'd already been taught that no one could tell me that you can't do something because you're black.

Big data in education has huge potential to improve learning materials.

The world that our children living in is going to be completely different because of big data.

I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.

My daughter was born in the States, and she went into the educational system here.