“The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the classic sites of Europe as imagined by exiles from cold peripheral lands, nostalgia about somebody else's past.” DifferentSchoolPastFantasyLandSourceColdEuropeTownsNostalgiaHillsClassicItalianSiteExileAcademyAbbey Book:A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic Source: A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic
“I had been a journalist in Europe and then went to divinity school in the early 1990s, and came out as somebody who had the perspective of a journalist and was now also theologically educated.” SchoolPerspectiveEuropeEducatedJournalistDivinity Author:Krista Tippett
“Pianists of extraordinary talent, such as Christina Petrowska,spend a large part of their early lives perfecting technique…Miss Petrowska,a Canadian with a phenomenal ability to play the most difficult music cleanly, gave a demonstration of her achievements at Carnegie Recital Hall. A product of the Juilliard School who studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Gyorgy Ligeti in Europe, Miss Petrowska built most of her program around fiercely difficult contemporary works. She has fingers that work like chrome-plated pistons, and her high-seated position let her bring pulverizing power to bear.” PlaySchoolDifficultAbilityTalentMissingPositionProductsBearsAchievementEuropeBuiltProgramFingersExtraordinaryTechniqueContemporaryHallsDemonstrationPhenomenalPianistCarnegieChristinaEarly LifeRecitalsChromeJuilliardStockhausen Author:Donal Henahan
“Holland I think is the best school to learn football. I think its a great league for that because it's not the strongest league in Europe.” ThinkingSchoolFootballEuropeLeagueStrongestHollandBest School Author:Rafael van der Vaart
“I never really got into marketing. I went to school for it, but never pursued it once I got out. Instead, I went to Europe for about two months, just traveling around in youth hostels and Eurail trains with my friends.” TwoSchoolYouthMonthsMy FriendsEuropeTrainMarketingPursuedTwo Months Author:Kevin Nealon
“Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well.” NeedsWritingWellsBookSchoolTeachPerspectiveEuropeCollectives Author:Bernard-Henri Levy
“In Europe, kids learn at least four languages before they're out of high school. But our education system is so underfunded, they go to school to buy heroin and an AK-47.” KidsSchoolLanguageFourHigh SchoolEuropeEducation SystemHeroinAk 47 Author:Eddie Griffin
“When I was in Hungary in December I was looking at student films and I could not tell which ones were shot on film and which ones were shot digitally. I think that is because the filmmakers in Europe go to four years of film school and learn the techniques.” ThinkingYearsSchoolFilmFourStudentsShotsEuropeTechniqueFilmmakerFour YearsDecemberFilm SchoolHungary Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“I lived in a little working-class town that had no black neighborhoods at all - one high school. We all played together. Everybody was either somebody from the South or an immigrant from East Europe or from Mexico. And there was one church, and there were four elementary schools. And we were all, pretty much until the end of the war, very, very poor.” LittlesWarEndsSchoolTogetherBlackChurchPoorClassFourHigh SchoolEuropeTownsSouthEastNeighborhoodImmigrantsMexicoWorking ClassElementary School Author:Toni Morrison
“I feel like there is an emphasis against teaching geography in American schools. Americans don't say, "I'm going to Germany." They say, "I'm going to Europe."” FeelsSchoolTeachingEuropeGermanyEmphasisGeography Author:Ayshay
“I think that as a teenager in England, it's very hard to avoid Europe. You see Barcelona, and you see all those places as a youngster. You go there on school trips and everything, but America is like a different planet.” ThinkingDifferentHardSchoolAmericaPlanetsEuropeEnglandTeenagerYoungstersBarcelona Author:Simon Taylor-Davis
“What interested me the most was that when I [traveled to Europe] I knew what Joseph Beuys was doing, he knew what I was doing, and we both, we just started to talk. How did I know what Daniel Buren was doing, and to an extent, he knew exactly what I was doing? How did everybody know? It's an interesting thing. I'm still fascinated by it because, why is it now, with the Internet and everything else, you get whole groups of artists who have chosen to be regional? They really are only with the people they went to school with.” PeopleKnowsStillsWholeSchoolArtistInterestingGroupsInternetEuropeChosenFascinatedTraveledInteresting Things Author:Lawrence Weiner
“I'd been influenced by reading books on art and colonies that existed in Paris and places like that and so when I came to Europe I came to France and I had very little money, and I had to live low and stayed in a bohemian section of Paris with a lot of other students, who were from medical school, science school and art school. We all lived in a kind of communal way and I was challenged politically, because I didn't have a clue and they would ask me questions about the Algerian War, which was very big in France in the late '50s.” WayKindLittlesArtBookWarBigsSchoolReadingAsksStudentsLateLowsEuropeMedicalFranceAsk MeParisReading BooksSectionsClueColonyArt SchoolBohemianLittle MoneyMedical School Author:Robert Redford
“If you take Lucie Rie and Hans Coper, their work didn't even relate to what we were trying to do, because they were moving in a different direction, both of them coming out of Europe and the Viennese school of design, which Lucie came from, and Coper learning from Lucie and then springing off on his own when she encouraged him to explore more widely. So he created his own work instead of just working for her and doing her forms. So that was a wonderful thing.” IfsTryingDifferentSchoolMovingFormWonderfulDesignEuropeRelateComing OutWonderful ThingsMoving InDifferent Directions Author:Warren MacKenzie
“After drama school I did a seven-month tour of Europe performing in 'Romeo and Juliet.' I played Romeo.” SchoolMonthsDramaEuropeSevenPerformingJulietSeven Months Author:Clive Owen
“What do you have in mind after you graduate?" What I always thought I had in mind was getting some big scholarship to graduate school or a grant to study all over Europe, and then I thought I'd be a professor and write books of poems or write books of poems and be an editor of some sort. Usually I had these plans on the tip of my tongue. "I don't really know," I heard myself say. I felt a deep shock, hearing myself say that, because the minute I said it, I knew it was true.” KnowsWritingMindSaidBookBigsSchoolFeltStudyPlansHeardMinutesEuropeHearingTongueShockGrantsEditorsProfessorsGraduatesScholarshipGraduate SchoolBell Jar Book:the bell jar Source: the bell jar
“What is so weird is that young people who want to be 'celebrities' do not want to put in the hard work. They don't want to do the training, go to drama school, read Shakespeare, try different accents and study technique. They just want to be famous. It is not just in England; it's the same in America and all over Europe.” PeopleWantTryingDifferentHardSchoolAmericaYoungStudyHard WorkDramaTrainingEuropeEnglandTechniqueAccents Author:Joan Collins
“The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts of the media will continue to attack public service pensions, as if school meals staff, refuse collectors and healthcare workers have no right to a decent retirement.” IfsStillsSchoolLawMediaEuropeUnionsWorkersRefuseMealsDecentBritainRetirementHealthcareStaffPublic ServiceCollectorsPensionMutteringDraconian Author:Frances O'Grady