Quotes About Education

I would tell anyone who wanted to be an actor not to bother with drama school.

When something bothers me, I try to learn about it.

I didn't do very well academically; I was always in the bottom class.

The bottom line is, between Sonny Osborne and Earl Scruggs, I better know how to play banjo. I had the greatest teachers in the world.

I bought all the books, but I probably knew on the first day that law school wasn't for me. I didn't give up until about ten days. I don't think I really told my father. I really didn't like my father knowing my things were not successful.

I remember the first book I bought, when I was about 11... Dad said, 'What have you got that for? What are libraries for?'

The rules within the educational system really teach you not push the boundaries, or not to think outside the box. They teach you to think inwardly about what's in the box.

I used to laugh at MMA and say 'do you know what a boxer would do to an MMA guy?' and then I got educated on the truth.

Parents need to sit down with their boys and girls and tell them how to carry themselves and tell the boys how to respect women and respect yourself and know who you are.

Children who plan their own schedules and evaluate their own work build up their brains and learn to take more responsibility.

I think the best learning is done with active manipulation. And we need to be able to work with our hands; it's not just about using our brains.

As citizens, I'm asking you not to leave any child behind. I'm asking you not to be color blind, but to be color brave, so that every child knows that their future matters and their dreams are possible.

More Brazilian women earn Ph.D.s every year than do men.

The key thing is to educate not just kids but adults about what goes into food. You do that in any way you can, bread machine or not.

The great break of my literary career was going to law school.

I learned more doing 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' than I did during three years at drama school.

The way we make history exciting to learn about is by breaking down the barriers that are already set up between these people.

In school in Lebanon, we were not allowed to speak Arabic during breaks - it had to be French or English.

There are a lot of people who don't know what metastatic breast cancer is.

Success breeds success and a strong educational foundation is the basis for the success of all Alabamians in the future.

The main problem with people not reading to their children is the lack of a bridge between schools and families, so that children don't see books and learning as a separate part of life.

Anytime I met an actor, I just attacked them and said, 'How did you do this?' Eventually, I began to realize that you went to school for it. I wasn't a bright kid, so it took me a long time to figure that out.

I wouldn't apply myself at school. I was quite bright, but I didn't do much with it, and I thought acting was dressing up and shouting for a living.

Kids who read are bright.