Quotes about "Education & Learning"

I suggest that an education and reading and facts aren't bad things on which to ponder a few notions. ”

In my day England, Scotland, Wales had 80 drama schools. There are none left. So there's no training, no discipline. ”

There've been times where I wondered whether it was worth continuing in my own education. ”

I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids. ”

The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense. ”

At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall. ”

I'm very interested, for instance, in music in education - getting young people not only to listen to, but participate in the music that I write. I consider this one of the most vital aspects of my work. ”

New technologies are rapidly giving rise to unprecedented methods of warfare. Innovations that yesterday were science fiction could cause catastrophe tomorrow, including nanotechnologies, combat robots, and laser weapons. ”

The ICRC did not see Nazi Germany for what it was. Instead, the organization maintained the illusion that the Third Reich was a 'regular partner,' a state that occasionally violates laws, not unlike any army during World War II, occasionally using illegal means and methods of warfare. ”

I've benefited enormously from an arts education and a music education in New York. When they cut the programs for funding, I was devastated. ”