Drew Barrymore Quotes

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

I prepare for every role. I come into class with my homework under my arm.

I'm very analytical, I'm very precise.

I always like to do quite a lot of homework; I quite like to do the research. If I didn't do this, I think I would like to be a researcher.

Any kids out there, don't base your homework on 'Merlin.' Just enjoy it and then read the books.

I have a chart for success at school because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. It opened my mind to the world. I learned to read.

I think the only value of being in school is that everything you do should be a problem that needs to be solved. Everything should be a challenge.

I like lists, I'm controlling, I like order. I'm difficult on every level.

I'm obsessively detail-oriented.

My university work was not central to my education.

I would argue that education, actual learning - it is hard work. It's very personal. Your parents don't teach you anything. Your teachers don't teach you anything. The government doesn't teach you anything. You read it. You don't understand it; you read it again. You break a pencil and read it again.

I am a very thorough person.

I'm an incredibly hard worker, I'm incredibly tenacious, and I'm incredibly detail-oriented.

I'm not really book-smart.

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

I would have to say I was an excellent student. I was the type to always do my homework and study when I needed to. I never really partied or did anything like that.

Good students are good at all things.

I was always a good student. I wasn't the A-plus student, but I studied really hard, and I probably had a 3.2. I always wished that I had the capacity to get straight A's, but I didn't. I didn't beat myself up about it, but I really studied hard for my grades.

I was an A student and I liked creative writing.

The best schools tend to have the best teachers, not to mention parents who supervise homework, so there is less need for self-organised learning. But where a child comes from a less supportive home environment, where there are family tensions perhaps, their schoolwork can suffer. They need to be taught to think and study for themselves.

Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

I think I can be pretty focused, but as I say, it was more wanting to be the good student, seeing myself as a good student, and also, my parents had expectations. They wouldn't have cared if I got a B or a C or even a D.

Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts.

You can’t get intelligence by sitting and saying nothing.

Education is not something where you just tip your head and they pour it in your ear. You’ve got to want it.