I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was what good sound was and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education going right from the consumer end to the record factory.
Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that and really getting an education on it I think it was part of the process of it learning about it and trying to lick it.
The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary secondary and higher education.
I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.
Labor under their current leadership want to be the Downtown Abbey party when it comes to educational opportunity. They think working class children should stick to the station in life they were born into - they should be happy to be recognized for being good with their hands and not presume to get above themselves.
Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry creativity entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
I have witnessed how education opens doors and I know that when sound instruction takes place students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.
If we want our children to value education then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.
We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.
Widespread public access to knowledge like public education is one of the pillars of our democracy a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.
To break boundaries interests me. With all the knowledge that is available now in the world it should be accessible to everyone. You can get so much information on the Internet now and yet there are so many places in the world where people just don't have the education.
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience and has little to do with school or college.
Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study but as a relaxation from study to give our work the charm of a story-book yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education.
English girls' schools today providing the higher education are so far as my knowledge goes worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.
I think education is one of the greatest tools for most kids not only to expand their book knowledge but their ability to experience new things - I think it opens more doors than any other experience I can think of.
You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite.
So long as these kinds of inequalities persist all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.
As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools educational opportunities will be limited as they are now to affluent families.
We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application as we do on acquiring facts.
If little else the brain is an educational toy.
A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural educational aesthetic inspirational and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.
The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.
No one has the right to threaten the health education and well-being of children by involving them in illegal or inappropriate work.