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Anybody who knows the public school teacher world knows there's not a lot of money in teaching. You do it because you love what you do.
I felt like I was in the best photography school in the world - I had Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon and Irving Penn teach me.
It costs $30,000 to $50,000 per year to send someone to jail. You don't have to pay so much to send someone to school at Johns Hopkins.
Drugs are in every walk of life - doctors, lawyers, preachers, the guy who works for IBM, teenagers on the street, teenagers in school.
In the period of '60s to the '90s, British art schools were small, and the number of student was small. The personal contact was great.
I didn't go out on one date in high school. I played guitar and sang and wrote my own music and poetry and stuff when I was a teenager.
If somebody is deemed more talented within the confines of the school it doesn't mean they're going to have the most successful career.
The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school.
School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers.
Growing up in the suburbs, I used to listen to punk rock, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday. And no one from my high school listened to it.
It was really cool being out on the road and doing school with my tutor over Skype or on the phone, but it can definitely be difficult.
Adulterers in churches and pornography in the schools, you got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules. When you gonna wake up?
The constant need to move on, and to document progress, in normal schools means that education tends to be cut up into bite sized task.
My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band.
I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that's a chapter.
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.
[Motherhood] is an incredibly huge challenge. You need support. You need resources. You need access to childcare and good safe schools.
I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would have my very own school - no way. And I had no idea I'd be coaching girls. It's wild.
If there's a field you're interested in, do some research. If you can, go to school and study it to really understand it from its core.
The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell.
The schools must fashion the person, and fashion him in such a way that he simply cannot will otherwise than what you wish him to will.
I'd like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting authority.
You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in school.
When I was in high school, we were all laboring under the illusion, or maybe it was a reality, that everyone in our school was a virgin.
I got a job immediately after leaving high school; I was lucky - three dollars a week and all I could eat, working on a vegetable truck.
Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.
Instilling a sense of self-discipline and focus when the kids are younger makes it so much easier by the time they get into high school.
...it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.
In schools where parent involvement is greater, you do have higher achievement levels and better functioning, better performing schools.
I remember sitting in school and thinking, 'I don't know why I'm here, because I know I'm going to act and I know I'm going to America.'
College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.
Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.
When I was at drama school I wanted to do classical theatre. It just so happened that I did a film when I came out and I moved that way.
The number of students participating in A.P. has more than doubled in 10 years, and today almost 15,000 U.S. schools offer A.P. courses.
My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.
Teachers themselves know if there's a colleague who can't keep control or keep the interest of their class, it affects the whole school.
My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.
It's... time to introduce scholarship programs that give students a choice, especially those who are locked into low-performing schools.
I think a big problem with art school is that it makes people feel like they have to be interested in everything that's of high quality.
I've watched Clueless as many times as humanly possible. Like, I would run home from school to watch it. Like, I can quote it backwards.
I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is.
I'm from the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" school of screenwriting. I just like to preserve what works and ignore what doesn't work.
At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware of the concept of candy by the pound.
I went to parochial grammar school, and I give thanks to the Catholic training because of course, they brought me to the heart of Jesus.
When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.
When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it.
I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do in school, but I definitely didn't have adequate time to reach my full potential as a student.
I don't think esthetic schools are important. What is important is the use that is made of them, or whatever the individual writer does.
I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.
It's great to have something to dress up for. You know, I spent three years in slacks at drama school, so now I like putting a dress on.