Quotes About Education

I taught four classes in my life. They were a master class at Northwestern and three classes at Emerson when I was making 'Here Comes the Boom' in Boston.

KIPP schools would be just a shining example of schools where students aren't just given homework and taught imaginative ways, but they're really brought into a culture of education.

Madurai G. S. Mani was my guru, and later M. Balamuralikrishna taught me a lot.

We are inflicting opinion in our newscasts like never before. That was never done and never taught in our journalism classes.

My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.

I remember being taught my place.

I don't have a classical-music mentality. I haven't been taught that way, and it doesn't fit my character, either.

If it's taught well, art really is important to kids early on. It helps children develop language and allows them to see themselves in a way that isn't right or wrong, because if they draw an animal with five legs instead of four, nobody's criticizing them for it.

In terms of school, we never got taught anything about black history. Growing up, a lot of things are hidden away from you.

If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of our language away from us. What makes us love a subject like English is when we learn all these fantastic stories. Feeding the imagination is what makes a subject come alive.

As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool.

The feminists taught us about consciousness-raising.

I wanted to make an explicitly educational comic that taught readers the concepts I covered in my introductory programming class. That's what 'Secret Coders' is. It's both a fun story about a group of tweens who discover a secret coding school, and an explanation of some foundational ideas in computer science.

The anti-Darwin movement has racked up one astounding achievement. It has made a significant proportion of American parents care about what their children are taught in school.

While at The Evergreen State College, I met Doranne Crable, and she was so dynamic and adventurous that I decided on the spot to take whatever she taught.

The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future.

I was taught in Bible college, religion and politics don't mix.

I believe kids shouldn't be taught Shakespeare. They should experience it first by seeing a great production.

I was never born to write. I was taught to write. And I am still being taught to write.

Me and my husband think the internet is a really positive thing. We know games that have taught our children problem-solving skills but that doesn't mean we are going to say play 'Call of Duty.'

For eight years, I taught special-needs preschool for 18 months to 3-year-olds. It's what I was gonna do with my career for a while, and then I got a little burnt out.

I have been lucky to find very good collaborators who have taught me a lot, have introduced me to several new fields of mathematics, or have shown me new insights.

Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.

It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language.