William T. Wiley Quotes

I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.

William T. Wiley

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• I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Know
  • Always
  • Artist

• But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Up
  • Important
  • Kids

• More and more parents and voters have rejected the teachers' union antiquated, top down, one-size-fits-all approach to education and continue to elect candidates who embrace reform that celebrates students and empowers parents.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Parents
  • Education
  • Down

• The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Career
  • Parents
  • Education

• Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.

  

  iO Tillett Wright
  • Artist
  • Performance
  • Queen

• Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy - entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Women
  • Small
  • Energy

• We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Up
  • Country
  • Education

• In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Education
  • Materialism

• Bringing GIS into schools gets the kids very excited and indirectly teaches them different components of STEM education. That's been illustrated at school after school.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Different
  • School
  • Kids

• In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • World
  • School

• Merit pay has failed repeatedly, and it's no surprise. When you base teacher pay on standardized test scores, you won't improve education; you just promote the high-stakes testing craze that's led parents, students and educators to shout 'Enough!' all across the country.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Country
  • High
  • Parents

• My synesthesia is mostly gone - it was a much bigger factor when I was a kid. But having no depth perception is a bonus when you're trying to lay out flat images and describe them to an artist - flat is all I see.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Trying
  • Artist
  • Perception

• I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Up
  • Artist

• It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Education
  • Community
  • Needs

• Let's make sure that we are working for age-appropriate sex education in our school system.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • School
  • Age
  • Education

• You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Education
  • Security

• My priority will continue to be that we maintain the optimal balance to be able to invest in education and infrastructure while encouraging business growth.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Business
  • Education
  • Growth

• It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've written a song for.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Song
  • Artist

• I lived in Montreal from the time I was 12 until I was 16.

  

  Oscar Taveras
  • Time
  • Lived
  • Montreal

• I never learned to ride a bicycle, and it is too late now. I never learned to drive. I never learned to swim.

  

  Marlene Dumas

• I make music because it helps me. I feel better after I've written a song. I listen to my own songs, and they make me feel and think about stuff I'd done or someone said to me, and I feel a bit better.

  

  Jorja Smith
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Better

• Imagine, just for the sake of discussion, that you had a few hours a week and a few dollars a month to donate to a cause - and you wanted to spend that time and money where it would have the greatest impact in saving and improving lives. Where would you spend it?

  

  Bill Gates
  • Money
  • Imagine
  • Discussion

• I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.

  

  William T. Wiley
  • Education
  • Artist
  • Starts