Jonathan Ke Quan Quotes

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.

My parents were obsessed with my education.

I've noticed with my own kids, it seems like they have so much more homework than I did.

We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.

I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked.

Being in school and doing the fighting stuff, it is very tough. I had school work all the way from Monday through Friday, and then on the weekends, you had homework, engineering projects and stuff. That makes it very tough.

My parents were educated in the Turkish system and went straight from high school to medical school; my mom, who had skipped a grade, was dissecting corpses at age seventeen. Growing up in America, I think I envied my parents' education. By comparison, everything I did in school seemed so sort of low-stakes and infantilizing.

I forgot how much I loved going to class, actually. But I also forgot what having school homework feels like: stressful!

But to go to school in a summer morn, O! It drives all joy away; Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the day In sighing and dismay.

I always stayed on top of my schoolwork. I did it because I had to and because I had a strict father. He made sure I did my homework and told me not to mess around in class.

Sometimes you have Harvard undergraduates who stun you with the depth of their knowledge. That is why it is great to be at a university like this.

College has become a business, and because of that, it can be gamed.

Oklahoma was a dry state, and consequently, there was no liquor laws. And I was able to take advantage of that by playing in nightclubs at the age of 14. It was real handy.

I prefer to work with mystery, but that doesn't work well in an academic environment. They want you to analyze what you're doing, which is toxic to the creative process for people like me.

People are still programmed to think that if your child doesn't get straight As, get A-levels and go to a Russell Group university, that somehow they are not going to achieve in life. I think that's sad.

I find that a lot of child actors are ruined once they've done a job.

I wasn't really comfortable going to college.

Most people I knew had been crippled by their educations. Some were even dying spiritually.

It's homework. It sucks.

Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic-it has no conscience. It rings a bell and the young man in the middle of writing a poem must close his notebook and move to a different cell where he must memorize that humans and monkeys derive from a common ancestor.

Cool,” I said. “You can IM with the Council from campus. Maybe you can command people to do your homework.

Homework is a term that means grown up imposed yet self-afflicting torture.

If you're always at the head of the class, then you're in the wrong class.

I'm glad to be an actor to be employed by people who are now 12, probably. I look forward to that.