Frank Gehry Quotes

When I was growing up, there were a lot more arts in the public schools. Politically, America has screwed up on that.

When I grew up in Cincinnati in 1974, the Board of Education set up the performing school, similar to the New York performing arts school, and it was in walking distance from my school.

School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians

One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living.

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.

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

It's sad that arts are not part of the curriculum across the nation.

Arts education must be part of our education solution because it works for all students.

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned.

I think one of the worst things schools have done is taken out all of the stuff like art, music, woodworking, sewing, cooking, welding, auto-shop. All these things you can turn into careers. How can you get interested in these careers if you don't try them on a little bit?

Today's Schools are not Tomorrows Schools. That's a fundamental misconception.

What about your school? It's defective, it's a pack of useless lies.

American education will be determined by the quality of American public education, and that's public schools that are available.

We used to have superb public schools. I guess we don't anymore, but, boy, the public schools were really something and I am a product of those in Indianapolis.

My middle school experience was pretty hellish. There was a lot of negativity, a lot of bullying and a lot of insecurity. It was the reason I ended up going to my arts high school because I was pretty bullied.

The school system only recognizes one type of intelligence. There are so many different types of intelligence.

All these children [who did not have music and art classes at school] go out into the world without knowing that there is anything other than what they have. Of course, children do look at TV, but what does it give them?

The fine arts thing at college was always too much for me to think about. What I was more involved in was being successful at arts school.

Generally in our world, whether in architecture or almost anywhere else, we devalue the artist, and schools at whatever level shut people down.

School's a weird thing. I'm not sure it works.

Learning is about much more than science and math. Doing theater, music, and art in school really helps children's minds grow because they're using different parts of their brains. Parents who care should insist on that.

Everyone goes to rotten schools when they're kids, don't they?

I can assure you that there is no question of us throwing away the tradition of the Grammar Schools.

Because they don't teach the truth about the world, schools have to rely on beating students over the head with propaganda about democracy. If schools were, in reality, democratic, there would be no need to bombard students with platitudes about democracy. They would simply act and behave democratically, and we know this does not happen. The more there is a need to talk about the ideals of democracy, the less democratic the system usually is.