If I look back down the years, how I was treated as a kid, if it wasn't for the teachers at my school, then I wouldn't have achieved what I have. You have to look where you came from, and we do need to get more parents involved, more running clubs and more schools. They can make a difference.
You may leave school, but it never leaves you.
I had been encouraged a lot by my parents and my sixth grade teacher, James Doyle at Main Street Elementary School. He was an early supporter of my writing ability.
I started missing acting when I was in school, and I realized after being in the business after however many years that I was really interested in film.
There is an old saying that you're a product of your environment. Parents can only do so much when eight hours of the day is spent at school. As parents, we try to teach our kids to be respectful to others and teach them old values, but a lot of it is down to the schools.
American missionaries have free rein in Uganda. They can go anywhere they please - schools, hospitals, parliament.
It's very Canadian of me - or maybe it's more the Catholic schoolgirl in me - but I always really want to do a good job.
One of the first things a family tries to teach its children is the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. One of the first things our schools do is destroy that distinction.
I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the Establishment, on thesimple rule of thumb, highly satisfying to a ten-year-old, that Irish equals good, English equals bad.
One of the pre - requisites for children becoming proactive and responsible citizens is the availability of enough role models inside and outside the school.
But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.
It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
I did go to a performing arts school, so that facilitated my creativity, though I ended up going in a more musical direction.
I got into house music thanks to Dutch master mixer Ben Liebrand and my friends at school.
I've only been acting since 2009 and I learn more and more with each job. I think I prepare and I'm very focused and I have a good work ethic that I learned in school.
I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end. I don't remember any of his ladies being bookish. So I was entirely dependent on my schoolteachers for my early reading with the exception of 'The Wind in the Willows,' which a stepmother read to me when I was in hospital.
I knew what could happen to my son if he was sent to the wrong school and got in with the wrong crowd.
The truth is that I've always wanted to be an actor, ever since I was a child. I used to see these English movies which were shown to us in our school every Saturday, and then I used to enact the hero's part in my head.
The teacher will never be a parent. The parents are the parents. But they have to engage in some sort of active education beyond just teaching mathematics and French and English because the kids spend more time there than they do with their parents at that age. We have to accept that other adults will be part of our children's education and they will have bad teachers. That's going to happen.
I was passionately interested in Elizabethan history at school, so it was natural for me as a musician to take interest in the music of that period.
The fact that schools can actually be a major factor in cementing the world is a factor that's worth considering, the fact that we all have a shared human identity in addition to many other identities.
Muhlenberg is the school that made me and shaped me into the actor I am today.
I've always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls private Catholic school, and one of their biggest things was musical theater.
For most, the school is the first model of a community, and it can be a very powerful one. We need to ensure that young people are raised in educational communities that they admire and that they will seek to emulate or re-create for the rest of their lives.
It wasn't until 9th grade that I got into music. This guy in school heard me singing around the hallway to girls and stuff. The girls liked it. One day, he was like, 'Come to my crib. I got a studio. Come and record a hook for me.' I recorded the hook on the 'Lovers & Friends' beat - Usher.
