Quotes of: Formal-education Keyword

I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college. However, my adult books are all science fiction, which has some similarities to YA.

Scott Westerfeld

I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal preparation. When I see something ten years later that I was in I think, 'Boy, would I love to do that over.'

Sam Elliott

Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.

Hans Hofmann

Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field. Officers and men became controlled by the one thought of getting as far as possible from the enemy.

Henry Villard

No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'll just drape, and I'll sew as I pin it.

Alexander Wang

Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object.

William Ames

I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.

Alain de Botton

Library stacks from this perspective are not a repository; they are a crowd.

Collaborative Learning: Higher Education, Interdependence, and the Authority of Knowledge

This is the crepe. This is the cider. This is how we live and eat.

Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef

We don't have education, we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool.

Bob Marley - Legend

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

Camille Paglia

The more you know, the less you need.

Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman

Still reading but learning a lot about true education and the process of guiding our children in their educational pursuits.

Oliver DeMille

Education reform doesn't come cheap. But the price of ignorance is far, far greater

Rania Al Abdullah

Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.

May Sarton

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Mark Twain

The best sex education for kids is when Daddy pats Mommy on the fanny when he comes home from work.

William Masters

Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.

James L. Farmer, Jr.

I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn't have any education at all. But they were very structured. They worked hard. You know, they didn't complain. They didn't murmur. And they believe in the Christ.

Evander Holyfield

A girl child who is even a little bit educated is more conscious of family planning, health care and, in turn, her children's own education.

Azim Premji

Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program.

Aaron Schock