Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Lipton

I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else.

Leon Kass

We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it.

Kids are healthier these days... more kids are in school around the world, and partly that's because Australians have been willing to invest in aid.

James Lipton

It can be summed up in one sentence. Does this person have something to teach my students? No one has ever let us down.

Quite a few, actually, are involved in education. They have had the same experience Hanna and I had: when they started having their own kids, they didn't want them to have a poor educational experience; they wanted them to enjoy school.

I think people with open minds will observe the way we do things and realize that our goal is to have successful, happy, productive adults, and they will take our ideas and implement them elsewhere for their own children.

But, neither of these educational scenarios worked for us, so when we started a family, we wanted a different school for our children. And the other founders felt the same way.

Technology will eventually destroy the way schools are run now.

You can't make someone learn something - you really can't teach someone something - they have to want to learn it. And if they want to learn, they will.

So, I see technology as a Trojan Horse: It looks like a wonderful thing, but they are going to regret introducing it into the schools because it simply can't be controlled.

Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources; many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them.

In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world we live in today.

When kids play, they are working on imagining the kind of world we live in.

And they understand that to be an effective member of a democracy, you have to accept responsibility.

Just the concept of personal freedom within a democracy, for instance, is a relatively young idea - only about 300 years old in this country.

If you watch young children play, you will notice that they create games, characters, situations, whole worlds in which they immerse themselves with intense concentration.

Educators are still spending way too much time trying to control what kids learn, bending the content to their own purposes, hoping beyond hope to change - by using technology - but not change too much.

Some go on to trade schools or get further training for jobs they are interested in. Some go into the arts, some are craftsmen, some take a little time out to travel, and some start their own businesses. But our graduates find and work at what they want to do.

I followed the rules, and I was a high achiever.

I'm not too worried about that. I am a big believer in modeling.

Morrie Schwartz

Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.

James Lipton

I thought we would have at most an audience of 5,000 devotees because I made the decision to stick to craft, not to gossip, not to be interested in any of the juicy stuff that they talk about on other shows, but stick to the question of craft.

James Lipton

I threw Spielberg out at 12:15 in the morning. Spielberg and the students. Coppola, out at 12:15. Billy Joel out at 12:15 in the morning.

James Lipton

I was dealing with craft, and that's the surprising thing, the number of people who have literally broken down on our stage, because when you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.

Leland Stanford

It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous to labor for wages, and to accept the condition of hired laborers.

Robert Brustein

Forty years later, people still swear they can hear his offstage scream.

I would deliver lectures that got standing ovations, but later, in the tests and essays, it was clear to me that the students just didn't get it.

Betty Dodson

If we could grow up knowing that the genitals are beautiful parts of our bodies, we'd be proud, we wouldn't have shame, we wouldn't have sexual guilt.

Alan Dundes

There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term paper involving original research.

Alan Dundes

Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant.

Carol Bellamy

I think tremendous change has taken place since the World Summit for Children in 1990.

Carol Bellamy

Thus the Convention is unequivocal in its call for children to be consulted, to have their opinions heard and to have their best interests considered when law and policies are being drafted.