Quotes About Learning

I learned English in a pub. I didn't learn it in school.

We don't spend our lives at dartboards in the pub - we are at home practising.

I met with several public company CEOs to learn about their experiences of going public and listened to as many earnings calls as I possibly could.

I'm committed to spending more money on public education.

I look back and see the kids who made it through school - it made a huge difference in their lives, which made me believe in the power of public education and what it can do for individuals and communities and the state.

When we talk about public education, we don't worry about a district. We don't focus on an individual school or a building when we talk about education. We talk about kids and what's best for kids. It doesn't matter what's best for the adults; what matters is what's best for the individual kids.

I definitely enjoyed it and I am glad I did university - four years of not being in the public eye - and I met all my best friends doing it, so I am definitely glad it happened.

I learned everything along the way. I only performed five times before I was in the public eye.

I remember being in high school and trying to absorb the knowledge that people in the public eye had to give.

To me, education is not a commodity. It is a public good, essential to any society with a claim to being civilised.

But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.

Every day, no matter how tired my father was, he'd put me in the car and drive me to Schaumburg Public Library, and he'd read to me from books about Dr. King, Mahatma Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt.

I worked in restaurants, and I worked in the Cambridge Public Library.

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.

I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on.

In some ways I grew up in the public library in Troy, Michigan.

We evaluate all business decisions based on how we can best serve public school teachers and their students.

I can't imagine going to an all-girls school. I went to a public school.

I went to public school up until junior high.

I went to public school, and it shaped me as a musician.

Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.

The thing that what we're taught in the public school system is everything you should know, I disagree with that. The most brilliant people in the world were dropouts - not that I'm pro-dropping out.

There is no reason why any public school district in our state should be on a four-day school week. If anything, we should be extending the school year.

I went to public school, and I didn't do well in school. And it wasn't until, actually, I got into school at Juilliard - it was the first time in my life that I thought, 'Oh, maybe I'm not stupid,' because I was so inspired and passionate about what I was learning, and it was the first time in my life I had felt that.