When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.
Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.
I wore a coat and tie all through high school: my way of being rebellious in the late 1950s.
The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.
I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.
When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street.
My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to primary school together and we were like boy scouts.
After high school, I went to VCU and got a B.F.A. in theater. I got to do a bunch of stuff professionally throughout college. I actually got my SAG card in college.
Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep.
I'd been wanting to work with James McAvoy since I was in drama school. I suppose there are parallels in that we're Scottish, we went to the same drama school and share the same agent, but aside from that, he's someone I've looked up to.
The schools that suffer are the schools in, in poor neighborhoods. They are the neighborhoods with the greatest need, with the parents struggling to work and to make ends meet. They don't have enough resources to give, they don't have enough resource...
In 1969, when I graduated from Harvard Law School, women and minorities made up a tiny fraction of the first year associates accepted by top law firms.
When I was in middle school, and teachers lectured about World War II, the conflict seemed impossibly distant and irrelevant. And it had only happened 15 years earlier.
Those are the two best words in English, 'Bidding' and 'war'.
The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.
An English summer's day is wonderful, but sometimes you have to look hard to find one!
I was the happiest in English class, and algebra was where I cried.
So many white kids, English kids - we had no culture.
I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.
To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are.
My heritage is English, so I'm proud to be back here.
