Quotes About Education

Your mother couldn't read, and she couldn't write, nuther, before she died. None of the family couldn't before they died. I can't; and here you're a-swelling yourself up like this.

Never let school interfere with your education

Thankfully, though, personalities are not born ugly; they are learned ugly

If You don't read good books, then you are no better than an unlettered Man

My parents were told by the principal of West Barnstable Elementary School and my teacher that I was a bright boy whose spelling was in the retarded range and whose handwriting was the worst they'd ever seen. I find it embarrassing that I spell so badly. I will do almost anything to avoid being embarrassed, but no effort either on my part or on the part of any teacher has ever dented my utter bafflement when it comes to choosing which letters to put down, how many, and in what order.

But my biggest joy and best education and proudest achievement has been being able to show up for work and life and not cause too much trouble a day at a time in spite of my hysterical, somewhat dramatic, nature.

The other day a patient told me that he had gotten into what was a very good college. 'It's not Harvard,' he said. 'Harvard's not Harvard either,' I answered.

Being a good conversationalist is really what a liberal arts education is all about.

If not, let me offer you some instruction in at least one area: get thee to a dictionary and be relentless about your visits there.

get thee to a dictionary and be relentless about your visits there. p. 591

You can't eat books, sweetheart.

There were not many people who could say that their education had been paid for with cigarettes.

Because you don't learn anything unless you can find the patience to read. TV takes that away from you. It robs you from your mind.

I was always reading books when I should have been doing math and the rest of it.

I told her about school and how I sat on a wall there and felt stories and words move through me ...

Papa would say a word and the girl would have to spell it aloud and then paint it on the wall, as long as she got it right. After a month, the wall was recoated. A fresh cement page.

He was not well-educated or political, but if nothing else, he was a man who appreciated fairness. A Jew had once saved his life and he couldn't forget that. He couldn't join a party that antagonized people in such a way. Also, much like Alex Steiner, some of his most loyal customers were Jewish. Like many of the Jews believed, he didn't think the hatred could last, and it was a conscious decision not to follow Hitler. On many levels, it was a disastrous one.

His first plan of attack was to plant the words in as many areas of his homeland as possible. He planted them day and night, and cultivated them. He watched them grow, until eventually, great forests of words had risen throughout Germany.... it was a nation of farmed thoughts.

School, as you might imagine, was a terrific failure. Although

Don't ask him for help," Mama pointed out. "That Saukerl." Papa was staring out the window, as was often his habit. "He left school in fourth grade." Without turning around, Papa answered calmly, but with venom, "Well, don't ask her, either." He dropped some ash outside. "She left school in third grade.

just because I can't read, doesn't mean I'm stupid - Liesel

Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up.

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

Education must shift from instruction, from imposing of stencils, to discovery—to probing and exploration and to the recognition of the language of forms.