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We had teachers, we had high school principals, we had people teaching in colleges and university in Tuskegee, Alabama. But they were told they failed the so-called literacy test. ”
In America we have big issues with education - in impoverished communities especially. I work with Teach For All, and so we're encouraging more people to get into teaching. ”
The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire. ”
More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature. ”
Television shows are not like cars or operating systems, and they are not best made by engineers or coders in the same assembly line manner as consumer products which need to be of uniform size, shape, and quality. ”
A prose writer never sees a reader walk out of a book; for a playwright, it's another matter. An audience is an invaluable education. In my experience, theatre artists don't know what they've made until they've made it. ”
Theatre people, who are an adaptive species, know that to remain sane in the process of production where everyone and his uncle has an opinion about how to fix a show, you must pick the people whose knowledge and taste you trust and stick only to these few. The Tweetocracy is no place to look. ”
We always wanted to be a big infra player in India - in sectors such as energy, healthcare, education, locomotives, etc. ”
The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward. ”
We must revamp K-12 education law to ensure Washington does not stand in the way of meaningful reforms. ”