Education and Learning Quotes

When I hear anyone talk of Culture, I reach for my revolver.

You never ask the public individual to decide. You can teach them anything, particularly the truth. But never ask them to decide.

Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.

People are always telling me how much they loved 'Empire Records.' We had so much fun making that movie. I was so young - 16 or 17. I still had a tutor!

The Jews are an artistic people. It's clear from the music, the actors, the writers. They are just artists. In the early part of the 20th century, when they first came over, they had no money, but they still went to theater. The theater and education were the two biggest things in their lives.

My favorite 'Mister Rogers' episodes were always the ones where Mr. Rogers would go into the community.

Unfortunately, in my home, we didn't speak Arabic; it was a mixed culture. My mother played a dominant role in our educational upbringing, and we grew up as part and parcel of Belize's culture.

But however the forms of family life have changed and the number expanded, the role of the family has remained constant and it continues to be the major institution through which children pass en route to adulthood.

I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it.

I felt I would have the most creative freedom making experimental films and teaching, as I had many good examples of people around me who did just that.

Kid's culture is often dismissed as superficial, like high fibre McDonald's, but it's so much more important than that.