I wanted to find ways for colleges and universities to become involved with public schools to help young people prepare for college.
As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.
I came second in a 1,500-metre running race at school. I knew I couldn't have come first, so second was my version of first.
I went to a Catholic school, so of course we had to wear uniforms. My only form of expression was in shoes and the style of my hair.
'School of Rock' was just once in a lifetime things; I want to be a doctor, actually. I'd go an do the sequel if they asked me to.
For one year I did go to Performing Arts School, and I had very weird friends.
While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays.
Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
I knew I never wanted to become an archaeologist. But at school I became intrigued by what people were doing on an everyday basis in the past.
Going to Catholic school was what fueled me into comedy. The nuns were so brutal so I used to try to make my friends laugh.
I was a bit of a show-off in school and loved playing dress-up, and my passion for it just grew as I got older.
Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core.
Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department
When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was.
I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.
When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kids couldn't.
I studied in American school, so yes, I grew up speaking English and Spanish. Obviously, Spanish is my first language.
Most people in Iceland are blonde and blue-eyed. I was nicknamed 'China girl' in school 'cos they thought I looked Asian.
Schools connect children to their communities. Jobs connect adults to their societies. Persons with autism deserve to walk the same path.
There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
I had a lot of friends in high school, but I was never the wild party girl. Never have been, never plan to be!
