Education Quote by Glenda Jackson

“It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.” quote by Glenda Jackson — Download Open image

“It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.”

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I studiously avoid any academic dissections of the play and any kind of previous experience of playing. For me, it's all in the play.

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I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.

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You don't do a play to compete for an award. This was the argument I always had over the Oscars. I didn't win them.…

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Nobody really needs a mink coat... Except the mink.

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Why put make-up on when you only have to take it off again?

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You'd think is something one would grow out of. But you grow into it. The more you do, the more you realize how painfully…

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My job is to see the world through the character's eyes.

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No, I'm not recognized in London. What would people recognize?

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I'm less confident now than I've ever been. In this peculiar craft, confidence is something you spend a lifetime losing. I used to be…

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The best teacher is an audience. The ideal performance is when that group of strangers sitting in the dark gets energy from the group…

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Usually, if there is a woman's part in a piece, there's only one, so you've got no other actresses to work with.

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I told them I wouldn't sign a blank cheque.

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I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial…

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For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow…

Alfred North Whitehead

Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that…

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There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very…

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“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even…

Nicholas Sparks

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“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will not obtain in it a looking-glass; if he has not a skin of tin he will not be able to endure the toil of education; if he has not leaden posteriors he will not be able…

Ioannes Amos Commenius

“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by”

H.D. (Hilda Doolittle

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“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper. And now that I can take it . . . now that I can finally do it . . . I'm really…

Erica Jong