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“In graduate school, I decide to write my doctoral thesis on how Italian architecture influenced English playwrights of the seventeenth century. I wonder why certain playwrights decided to set their...”
“I graduated from university with a degree in architecture and then ended up doing a series of internships with different firms. And once I was in an office environment, I realized that at school wh...”
“I'm working on a school of architecture in China. It's rare that an architect gets to design a school of architecture, and here I get to do it. I'm so pleased that they asked me.”
“I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus.”
“I went to school for engineering, I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architectu...”
“Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.”
“When I went to school at Emerson, I was completely charmed living there and loved the architecture of the Back Bay.”
“I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.”
“When I was in architecture school at Princeton, the worst thing you could say about someone was that they were eclectic.”
“The same independence that got me into trouble in high school got me praise in college.”
“I think boarding school does give you an independence.”
“The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.”
“I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.”
“If you feel your school is failing you, the question is why. Is it a lack of parental involvement, large classes, school violence, poor learning environment? Are there any standards to determine wh...”
“When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other skills.”
“I didn't get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.”
“School systems now routinely have more administrators than classroom teachers. They have armies of counselors and therapists and nutritionists and 'multi-cultural learning facilitators.'”
“There's no media training. In cooking school, there's not even manager training. You learn the fundamentals of cooking. Everything else is learning by doing.”
“Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.”
“The way my brain processes information is quite odd. I mean, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and another learning disability I can't even spell. I don't even have a high school diploma. I'm smart...”
