'Friends' was an education in intelligent comedic banter in intelligent vernacular. It was an education in scene study. It was an education in group dynamic. I came out of there with a master's degree in comedy.
I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!
I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do with my life.
I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.
I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that they consider glamorous which is acting and yet I took a time to really get my education and study mathematics and I think math is the cat's meow.
We have not given science too big a place in our education but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.
I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.
Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner subjective response to the outer world. That helps spiritualize our lives.
I published in 1978 a report on dreams in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. It was the first study of its kind to demonstrate that it is possible for people to make constructive use of their dreams to improve their lives.
The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces.