Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.
I've made some great movies. 'Risky Business' still stands up. It's timeless. They study that film in film school.
Business schools need to address students on a human being level, not as cogs in the machine to supply fresh talent to big companies.
Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox.
My parents worked for Exxon, and they gave me every chance to take part in music. I took guitar lessons, and I was in the choir at school.
Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.
My mom dressed me in silk to go to elementary school. In kindergarten, they sent me home because I couldn't do finger painting in my dress.
I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.
In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism by African-Americans.
When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.
The school curriculum today, particularly American history, is a shame.
It isn't unusual to see children climb into a car every morning to be ferried to the front door of a school that's just a few blocks away.
I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
My dad didn't want me to go for drama in school, so I chose the closest thing to it and got a bachelors degree in Communications at the Manhattan College.
I come from a very working class background. My dad worked in a factory for 40 years. We all put ourselves through school.
My dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and shouldn't be trusted.
I remember watching my dad work on PCs, and I remember using Texas Instrument calculators in school. It was a bit nostalgic.
School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.
Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.
