Quotes About Education

I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'

If you ask most high schoolers who Bruce Lee is, they will say that it someone they sit next to in English class.

In the mid-1970s, I was teaching design at the Academy of Applied Arts in Budapest.

Whenever there are changes to school budgets, we know teachers feel it first.

I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.

I was going to Hartford High School and when the theater bug hit, it hit hard and it saved my life. It gave me focus, direction and purpose.

My kid really loves bugs.

The arts give kids the building blocks with which to then play.

Twenty-first century buildings support a 21st century education - because it is difficult to learn or to teach if you are shivering.

School was my escape even if I was getting bullied.

There are children suffering, even dying from being bullied.

Kids aren't born to be bullies, they're taught to be bullies.

I'm very lucky I haven't gone through a lot of bullying, and I'm also home schooled.

What I've always thought I would do is make a bunch of movies and then stop to teach for awhile. And then just teach at film schools - you know, teach children.

Sitting with a bunch of adults and arguing about what's going to be most effective for kids is just sort of self-defeating.

It is my greatest wish to teach children what I now believe: that writing is not a burden but a joy.

I don't really understand how to do bureaucratic things - school-system things.

Bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., shouldn't know how to better educate my kids than I do.

I was a kinesiology major in college, which is exercise science. Then, I was either going to get my Ph.D. or go to medical school, but I was kind of burned out after school.

Boarding school in Tring was a bit of a bubble that burst when I went to Hackney to go to drama school.

Now I'm the father of three children; I'm not able to go live on a bus and do semesters around the country like I did when I was young.

The public bus is how I got to school every day.

If we can't put our kids on the school bus and know they are safe, nothing else matters.

I care about buses and libraries and schools and roads and education.