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.
I'd love to do more theatre and acting. I attended a performing arts high school in London, and it would be great to be able to put all of that training to use again.
Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.
I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do.
I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.
My advice has always been to study the craft of acting if you want to be an actor. There are many great schools that teach acting. NYU being one of them.
Sport is and should remain a great school of life that supports young people in their personal development. It teaches respect for others and also for oneself.
It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important.
