Quotes About Education

So much of science proceeds by telling stories.

History is scholarship. It is also art, and it is literature.

Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all general impediments to scientific literacy.

The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.

If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on your bedroom night table but the newest Dan Brown novel, and nothing in your bathroom but Jokes for the John, I'll chase you down to the end of your driveway and back, screaming 'Where are your books? You graduated college ten years ago, so how come there are no damn books in your house? Why are you living on the intellectual equivalent of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese?

The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the tools to write.

Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There's no feeling on earth like it.

You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think.

As far as I'm concerned, high school sucked when I went, and probably sucks now. I tend to regard people who remember it as the best four years of their lives with caution and a degree of pity.

Those who do not learn the lessons of the past are condemned to repeat it.

The lessons which I remember the longest are always the ones that are self-taught

Children learn much more by mute example than by spoken rules, or so it seems to me.

A kid of your age—any kid—could get hold of matches if she wanted to, burn up the house or whatever. But not many do. Why would they want to?

What you need to remember is that there's a difference between lecturing about what you know and using it to enrich the story. The latter is good. The former is not.

I've become convinced that genius is a vastly overrated commodity. I think this country is full of geniuses, guys and gals so bright they make your average card carrying MENSA member look like Fucko the Clown. And I think that most of them are teachers, living and working in small town obscurity because that's the way they like it.

It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little - or not at all in some cases - should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written. Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time - or the tools - to write. Simple as that.

When the pupil is ready, the teacher will appear. I was your teacher.

You could not moralize children out of growing up. Or teach them how to do it.

College was for people who didn't know they were smart.

Learning itself is a present, you know. The best one anybody can give or get.

writing couldn't really be taught, only learned.

Too much knowledge isn't good for a person. I know that now.

The only stupid question, my cullies, is the one you don't ask.