L'Wren Scott Quotes

As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.

Growing up, I lived in a house without art: no picture books on the shelves, no visits to museums, no posters on the bedroom wall.

… adult education should be made available … so that our less privileged groups may be able to avail themselves of new openings which require more education than they possess.

I used to say I didn't regret dropping out of school because it's what I had to do. But I do feel it. There are certain conversations I feel excluded from. When people talk about Greek history, I just have to sit there and listen. I excuse myself from games of Trivial Pursuit.

I didn't go to the 12th grade... I stopped at 11.

My parents were all about education. My mother was a librarian - she retired after 30 years - and she made sure that we were always at museums, that we went to plays.

I wasn't raised to make history. In high school and family, no one around me was politically involved, and few of my friends planned to attend college or even thought about it.

The only difference between Compton and other cities is the ZIP Code, you know, and the mindset - it's just really about challenging people to take ownership of our community.

I don't believe most kids enjoy school at all, and that's a shameful waste, considering how curious and excited kids are to learn. They're naturally curious, full of wonder.

I did go to a film school in Sarajevo. I studied film and theatre directing. There was a war raging in the country while I was studying, and we did not have neither electricity nor cinemas for three and a half years.

I wanted to go to LaGuardia High School for acting, but my math grades weren't high enough. So I didn't get to go to a school that was geared toward the art that I was interested in because I wasn't good enough at math.

In my family, education was something you endured. My parents weren't educated past high school, and the only book in our house was a 'Reader's Digest' condensed book. Can you imagine?

Education is the most powerful tool for everything but certainly to create opportunities for yourself, and I know that not everyone has the privilege of an education like here in America.

One of the most significant factors contributing to the chasm of educational opportunity is the way that schools are funded.

My dad had to quit school when he was in third grade. My mom had to quit school. They didn't know what I needed, and I didn't know what I needed to keep wrestling and go to school, so that's why I had to go to community college.

We were second-generation immigrants, and it was luxury enough to go to college. The luxury of the arts was still a generation away.

I'll read a book. I'll watch a documentary or a film or whatever. I'll go to an art exhibit and just try and open myself to influence.

I dropped out of school after my tenth standard. But both my elder brother and younger brother are highly educated.

My older sister, Amy Jo, and I - we are the first generation of my family to stay on at school and do any exams at all.

India, with one of the largest education systems in the world, has always been a priority for Khan Academy.

The life prospects of an American are more dependent on the income and education of his parents than in any of the other advanced industrial countries.

If we expose kids to books and art, nothing but good can come from it.

Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant.

Art is for stimulation, excitement, adventure.

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?