Quotes About Education

When I went to art school, I was just having fun. I realised that was the last chance I had, and then I would have to get a job.

When I was going through school, I joined the Lyceum Youth Theatre, and that kind of cemented it. Through being in and around the building and watching shows, I realised that there was something I really loved about it, so I went into the stage management side.

I was probably 13 or 14 when I realised I had a chance to make it. That's when I realised that a bit of education had to be sacrificed in order to become a footballer.

When I was little, I thought everyone in the world liked to read because it was so fun. But then I realised that was not exactly true. I want other kids to read and write more all over the world, because it helps them to understand things better.

It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal.

I started a French degree at university, but packed it in when I realised I really wanted to be an actor.

I have great respect for actors like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman who went to school the entire time they were acting. All I did was one small little independent film, and I realised I couldn't balance both lives.

We were raised very colour blind. I had gone to school and to camp for so long with white people, I think I was like 15 years old before I realised I was black.

One of the brilliant things I realised after I'd left school is that there are so many ways you can learn. I do this best on the job.

When I grew up, I realised what an amazing thing my parents did. It was such a big deal for my mom, a middle class woman, to decide to leave her children and husband to go and do her Ph.D. for three years. And my dad, who is even more middle class, a traditional South Indian, to let his wife do that.

I went to drama school but soon realised I was terrible at acting, so I ditched drama school for art school.

The best thing my parents did was to make me study in Chennai. I was in a school where most others around me were also from film industry families so none of us realised what our parents were.

I remember singing as a chorister in Peterborough Cathedral, having won a music scholarship to go to school there, and realising for the first time in my life what true excellence was.

The only realistic offer came from Nebraska University who offered me a scholarship to be a physical education director. What will a 24-year-old do with that? Retire and study?

We need better public education and more realistic education.

There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child.

In many ways, I consider those to be my formative years, because when you're in school, you have a distant relationship to the world in that most of what you're learning is from books and lectures. But at Amnesty, I came face to face with realities in a very direct and harsh way.

I was an economist out of the National University of Mexico, where you lived the realities of Mexico all the time.

I went to the theater school at DePaul University in Chicago, the Goodman School.

People think that when you use Google you're finding exactly what you need, but really, you need expert help.

You wish that everyone knew what cisgender meant. Everyone has access to Google. You can find out what's appropriate to ask a trans person.

I taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised.

For the very young, there's nothing better than Mother Goose and anything by Dr. Seuss for the rhythms and language.

You have a kid, and it's like, 'He's gotta go to college! Gotta have some clothes!'