Quotes About Education

It's our responsibility as fathers to educate out boys to be sensitive and respectful towards women and not just curbing our girls' freedom.

Most Americans, I don't think, could fathom the society that I grew up in. It is a completely different philosophy from America's. You are basically told what you can be by the educational system.

I like to give people information; that's to a fault.

But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society.

I was never good academically. It was mainly my own fault.

Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.

My favorite movie is 'Coach Carter' so I would definitely tell anyone who hasn't seen that to check that out.

One of my favorite things to do with my children is to read to them.

I don't favour ethics classes being an alternative to special religious education classes.

Growing up, I was like any Aussie kid - you know we love our sport - that was my favourite subject at school. That is a subject, right?

A fearful child cannot learn.

I think people get fearful of things they don't know or understand.

I think everything you do, whether it's low budget things when you're first starting out or full feature films or when you're working with Hollywood, you're always learning, all the time.

The first director who ever allowed me to shoot a film for him was a male. He was a gay male. My first feature also came from him. I worked for a lot of dudes at NYU.

I feel that cinema can't change society or bring a revolution. I'm also not sure of cinema as a medium of education. Documentaries can be educative, not feature films.

I made a lot of short films before making a feature film. Actually, I learnt film-making by making short films.

I'm very passionate and believe that every time the LGBT community is featured in the media, people are learning about us.

Why do we need a federal Department of Education? Curriculum should be driven at the local level anyway.

I looked at No Child Left Behind after it was enacted and saw what happened and saw the expansion of the federal government and the role of education. And I said, you know, that was - that's not what I believe in.

Everyone wants their children to go to school, to have a job, a roof over their head, feed their children.

The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center has this wonderful program where they take in the youth, feed them, help them learn how to cook, clean, they help them get jobs, help them learn how to save their money, and they have shelters all over the city.

I think parents today are looking for meaningful things for their kid. It's about feeding them something with meaning.

We want kids to value real food and understanding that it isn't just about feeding people but about nourishing the body, the community and the planet.

I love reading about new advances in my industry. I love feeding my brain.