Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

What my parents believed was that, you know, the best wealth they could give to us children was to educate us and, you know - give us that foundation.

Any child can be developed, it depends on how you do it.

I really make sure that my girls understand the importance of education. I don't want them to be spoilt and only know private school kids. I want them to behave well by example.

Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.

Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.

I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.

Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.

Although children are good and well born, vice will blight them if they are not well educated.

The first 3 years of a person’s life determines the next 80 years.

Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. Their relevance to a future usefulness need not be obvious. It is a difficult assignment. The conditions the teacher arranges must be powerful enough to compete with those under which the student tends to behave in distracting ways.

We've never tried to educate children. We've never tried to preach to them, just entertain.

When I work on sculpture, I don't have to worry about function. When I work on a piece of architecture, I must think about function all the time.

I think it's imperative to keep your focus on why you're in school. You're in school to get an education.

I went to community college for graphic design, and I loved it, but I wasn't into the school thing, so that didn't work out.

I am involved in the architecture of space.

You don't have to sugar coat things for kids. If you make something for them with intelligence they will show that intelligence in ways that will sometimes shock you.

Both my children have degrees from UCLA.

I really love teaching; I was actually studying to be a preschool teacher.

But also outside of football, with the family, the most important is to settle down, to have everything good outside with school, etc.

I went back to college for construction and design.

I grew up in Romania studying art and architecture.

My mom made sure all her kids went to college.

The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.