Quotes About Scholarship

I always thought I was going to be a soccer player, get a scholarship to college, and then join the U.S. women's team.

Besides music, I was all school, school, school. And softball. I played the game since I was four, and I wanted to go to the Olympics for softball. I got a full scholarship through softball.

Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.

Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.

Many highly schooled people are uneducated, and many highly educated people are unschooled.

Once he could read, all knowledge was within reach.

Books are absent teachers.

1. WHAT IS THE BOOK ABOUT AS A WHOLE?

There have always been literate ignoramuses who have read too widely and not well.

A primeira ignorância é a do analfabeto, isto é, do sujeito incapaz de ler. A segunda ignorância é a do sujeito que leu muitos livros, mas os leu de maneira incorreta.

to Read a Book was first published in the early months of 1940.

The year after How to Read a Book was published, a parody of it appeared under the title How to Read Two Books; and Professor I. A. Richards wrote a serious treatise entitled How to Read a Page.

The tremendous pleasure that can come from reading Shakespeare, for instance, was spoiled for generations of high school students who were forced to go through Julius Caesar, As You Like It, or Hamlet, scene by scene, looking up all the strange words in a glossary and studying all the scholarly footnotes. As a result, they never really read a Shakespearean play.

STEP 2 IN SYNTOPICAL READING: BRINGING THE AUTHORS TO TERMS

Culture cannot compensate for lack of hard knowledge.

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IT PAYS TO KNOW HOW TO PURCHASE KNOWLEDGE

The fellow had said that education had nothing to do with intelligence and that half the so-called educated were numskulls.

But I think you're failing to understand exactly what a dissertation is supposed to be. It's not meant to change the world or revolutionize the way we think about anything. It's meant to be a document that I can read and the rest of the committee can read to show us that you have enough understanding to warrant a PhD. That's all. Once you have the PhD, once you leave here, or stay here and become a professor, that's when your real work will start.

Virtuosity in Talmud was the achievement most sought after by every student of a yeshiva, for it was the automatic guarantee of a reputation for brilliance.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attention. That's what really art history is. You're looking at something very closely, and you try to write in a meticulous way about it.

I went into the military because I didn't get a scholarship, a basketball scholarship I thought that I would get.