Education Quotes

"AI will create a useless class of people."

"It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes."

"No one has the Houdini school of composition."

"There were no spells at my school, just a smack in the mouth."

"I was the class innuendist."

"As Governor of North Carolina for two terms, I made improving education a top priority."

"Graduate school is a place to hide for a couple of years."

"I played basketball and soccer my freshman year in high school."

"As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school."

"Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved."

"I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learning. Once I left Cambridge, I went to Yale as a fellow. I spent two years there. After that, George Gale made me literary editor of 'The Spectator.'"

"I guess I never really had a high school experience. I went for about a month, and on the first day one of my friends got punched in the eye. It was Southern California Public High School. Needless to say, I wasn't there for long."

"None of my characters seem to have had sex yet - I haven't written about that. And I wouldn't want to deal with what's happening in Oregon - the school shootings."

"You can't have public health without working with the public sector. You can't have public education without working with the public sector in education."

"I started acting pretty young, so I haven't had too many odd jobs. But I used to sell candy out of my locker in middle school."

"There was a small window when I wanted to be an astronaut. It may have coincided with not getting cast in a high school play."

"The medium of response in America is fame; that's how a person that bounces a ball can make millions of dollars, and a school teacher with no fame makes $35,000."

"The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids."

"I grew up in a military family. I was moved around from school to school, so people aren't always the most welcoming to new girls in school."

"I was rejected by casting directors during the day. I attended class in the evening, then rode 90 miles on the train home."

"To try to be at once a Lithuanian yeshiva and a New England prep school: that was the unspoken motto of the Maimonides School of Brookline, Mass., where I studied for 12 years."

"My mom didn't let me play tackle until I was in high school. She didn't want me to get hurt."

"As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet."

"Just think of the opportunities we can unlock by making education as addictive as a video game. This type of experiential, addictive learning improves decision-making skills and increases the processing speed and spatial skills of the brain. When was the last time your child asked for help with a video game?"

"My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in class, except in second grade when an artistic genius passed through our school!"

"I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College."

"I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw."

"I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school."

"I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They don't know it, and it's frustrating me because I feel that it's an edge that I have, and I'm not talking about I took this hip hop class, I'm talking about this is how people actually know me."

"The president's grand experiment in trickle-down government has held back rather than sped economic recovery. He seems to sincerely believe we can build a middle class out of government jobs paid for with borrowed dollars."

"Just as radical heirs apparent are said to lay aside all inconvenient revolutionary opinions when they come to the throne, it was believed that Mr. Mill in Parliament would be an entirely different person from Mr. Mill in his study."

"A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained."

"Writing old school HTML code was never very much fun but now it's getting downright tedious for most people."

"John Ventimiglia, who was on 'The Sopranos,' was in my first acting class and we have been friends since that time. Alec Baldwin was in my class back then, Sean Young and Andrew McCarthy."

"We did a lot of that in drama school: intellectualising and maybe justifying your position. 'I am a thinking actor and I have thought this through' - well, just do it. I much prefer the doing aspect."

"Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon."

"I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I've taken every comparative-religion course that was available. God? I have no idea."

"I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in."

"I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal."

"Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what's wrong with the school system."

"The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So that informs everything about me, my politics and all that stuff. I mean, politically, I vote against my own self-interest at every election. I actively ask these people to raise my taxes."

"I believe a solid, really strong middle-class is the key to making the country in the best way."

"I'm not exactly a maths genius - I'm really good at maths, maths was my favorite subject in school, but I wasn't a genius."

"I lost my parents very early in my life. My mom died three weeks after I graduated from high school, and my dad died two years after I got married."

"There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from a working-class terrace in Northampton to the homes of friends who were really very wealthy. It was quite an odd position to be in, I realise looking back, and quite a nice one."

"I am a gay man who loves James Bond films and snooker - all kinds of working-class pursuits."

"I am proud to be Italian because I was born in Italy, I grew up in Italy, I went to school in Italy and I have worked in Italy. I'm Italian."

"The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves."

"I wanted to further my education, so I went on to get a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and came back and served about ten years in the Canadian Navy as what we call a combat systems engineer."

"'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime."