Quotes About Education

Not enough people really think about the founding of our country, how it all began and what its really about. They don't even teach it in schools any more.

I didn't have the luxury of going to the four year school for acting.

I worked hard at my four-year M.A., but got a 2.1. That was a big disappointment, as I wanted to write about history and thought I needed a First.

I don't think that every child in America is going to necessarily aspire to, you know, a four-year degree from a liberal arts college or a certain kind of life. I think that people should learn to be excellent in the thing that they choose to do.

Does anyone really believe a four-year degree is what separates an ethical person from a con artist?

My father left school at the age of fourteen, so this was a man with no deep experience of formal education.

It's depressing and scary, but he needs to know the world around him because he's fourteen now and in two years he's going to drive. He needs to know what goes on out in the world. I'm not going to always be there.

We decided around fourth or fifth grade that we were going to go to film school.

I started going to chess clubs when I was in fourth grade. From fourth grade to seventh grade, I was in chess club.

You can't watch Fox News without seeing five or six segments a day about the nuttiness on college campuses.

I support the elimination and defunding of all agencies like the Education and Energy Departments because they fall outside of the framework of the Constitution.

You don't immediately adopt the values and the framework of this, the academically successful world, just because okay now you kids get to go to high school.

I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

I was going to France to do my masters and my Ph.D., but I didn't know how to say, 'bonjour.' You really feel like a baby, starting everything from scratch.

Going to school in San Francisco, you're not going to meet as many people that are making films as you would if you went to film school in New York or L.A.

When I was growing up in San Francisco, one of the experiences that changed my life was my first paid internship - a summer job at The Family School.

My mother worked as a maid, cleaning the fraternity dorm of the local college.

Get-educated-quick schemes are usually about as sound as subprime mortgage-backed securities: Enticing but basically fraudulent.

I've always been an A or B student. When I get a B, I freak out a little bit!

I had two wonderful teachers: Sanford Melsner and Fred Kareman.

With FutureLearn there are so many free courses and we like learning all the time.

I try to think of school - this is going to sound awful - as something I do in my free time.

Bad writing as a conscious goal is liberating for students: They are freed to be creative in a new and different way.

My French is still good. That's a beautiful language and I'm happy to speak it.