“Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.”
“It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.”
| Ann Bancroft, Explorer (1955) |
| Colin Dexter, Novelist (1930) |
| Anita Ekberg, Actress (1931) |
| Erika Eleniak, Actress (1969) |
| Enrico Fermi, Physicist (1901) |
| Greer Garson, Actress (1908) |
| Elizabeth Gaskell, Novelist (1810) |
| Julia Gillard, Statesman (1961) |
| Gwen Ifill, Journalist (1955) |
| Mohammad Khatami, Philosopher (1943) |
| Charles Samuel Addams, Cartoonist (1988) |
| Rebecca Harding Davis, Author (1910) |
| Shusaku Endo, Author (1996) |
| Greg Giraldo, Comedian (2010) |
| Alphonse Karr, Critic (1890) |