Quotes about "Education & Learning"

Higher educating has so many challenges, and private higher education has a special challenge of ever rising tuition costs. ”

I started out with Buzz Sawyer in Sacramento. He had me shoot on guys and beat them up. They tossed me a few bones here and there. But, after Buzz passed away, I started seeking training elsewhere. ”

The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was. ”

The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education. ”

School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects, but on the much more fertile idea of disciplines... which makes possible a fluid and dynamic curriculum that is interdisciplinary. ”

Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not. ”

You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them. ”

When I talk to youngsters today, especially those involved in athletics, I tell them to get their education first. ”

If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is an American dream was because at key points in our history we made very bold decisions about making sure that there was very broad, universal access to quality education. ”

To go from working with a group of people in a sketch-comedy show on a small network, where it was all about just creating funny stuff, to being on a network show, and the pressures of that, and getting to know the new people who were involved in it. There was a learning curve for me. But it was an education. ”