Quotes About Education

I've always loved dinosaurs.

Kids go through a stage where they love dinosaurs - boy or girl.

You cant be an artist without going to art school. Its impossible. Art schools like being plunged into a sheep dip that inoculates you against cliches. It gives you a sensibility you need to get into the art world.

My school almost lost its accreditation. If that had happened, my diploma wouldn't have been worth anything.

As a high school dropout, I understand the value of education: A second chance at obtaining my high school diploma through the G.I. Bill led me to attend college and law school and allowed me the opportunity to serve in Congress.

When I was girl, you could still get certain jobs if you didn't have a diploma.

The diploma has become a brand and learning should never be about a brand. Learning, the real kind, actually never ends.

My parents wanted to make sure I at least had the high school diploma, so I got a GED.

I have made movies on education and dance, have directed and choreographed legends of Bollywood. Now, I want to make a movie on martial arts. I myself am a black belt, so I am looking forward to do something on this.

I still don't know much about directing a movie.

I was born in Ballaghadreen, but I grew up in Galway, and when I went to the University College of Galway, I became involved in the drama society there and started directing plays.

I want to go to film college to learn about the departments and how everything works. Then I'm going to start directing.

It wasn't until I was in that world, directing shows and movies, that I realized basically my job is to give back to another generation what the generation before me gave to me.

There was a point when I was very young where I remember talking with my mom about going to drama school and this was maybe when I was 8, 9, 10 years old - and she knew that I was also academically very capable, and she steered me in another direction.

I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television.

I'm not big on reading directions. I can't do that. I'm just not from that world.

When you try to teach children things, you're trying not necessarily to do it directly.

I majored in drama and theater arts at Columbia and was always in acting studio, but that was a liberal arts degree, not a bachelor of arts degree, so I didn't have a traditional conservatory training. There was a lot of reading and a lot of writing involved, and only about 30 percent of my classes were directly theater-related.

I've always wanted to work with young people from disadvantaged areas.

Children being groomed to travel abroad or disagree with British values could happen anywhere.

No Child Left Behind was a disaster.

My father taught me to play the sitar when I was seven years old. He and his elder disciples oversaw my teaching from the beginning, looking after my scale work, the poor things.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.