I never, in my wildest dreams, could I have thought that the first role I get out of school would lead to an Oscar nomination.
I think the 20s are a vastly overrated decade. We promise kids that once they get out of school, life will begin and their dreams will come true. But then comes the struggle.
We want people to realize you are at a design school, not a land grant college. The way we look says a great deal about who we are.
Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years.
Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.
Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.
I do not see any reason why they should not be given the means to give their teachers just as high an education as is secured by attendance at the Protestant schools.
As education and employment secretary in 1997, I inherited hundreds of schools where the roofs leaked, the windows rattled, and they relied entirely on outside toilets.
Education never really interested me, to be fair. I mean, education does interest me, but academic school study is a different thing. I can't quite grasp that.
The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.
Going to school at home saved my life as far as education went. My parents were able to give me the attention I needed.
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
Early college high schools in North Carolina and across the country show us that challenge - not remediation - is an approach to education that works.
Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.
Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all.
So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.
Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.
Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.
My concern for education in New Mexico has always been there. I'm one of those kids that struggled through school, and I feel like I fell through the cracks.
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
When you play with great musicians, whether they're schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes. It comes down to people's personalities and individual energies.
