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Quotes About Education

Meanwhile we have learnt something, and to know is to be prepared.
~ Agatha Christie
It was a cheap school, you know, and the teachers weren't very good. They could never answer questions properly." "Very few teachers can," I{Jerry}said. "Why not? They ought to." I agreed.
~ Agatha Christie
More children suffer from interference than from noninterference.
~ Agatha Christie
There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time. Shakespeare is ruined for most people by having been made to learn it at school; you should see Shakespeare as it was written to be seen, played on the stage. There you can appreciate it quite young, long before you take in the beauty of the words and of the poetry.
~ Agatha Christie
Toat? lumea se a?teapt? ca educa?ia s? fie un drept fundamental ?i nu pun mare pre? pe ea când o primesc!
~ Agatha Christie
What," asked Dr. Constantine with interest, "does a pukka sahib mean?" "It means," said Poirot, "that Miss Debenham's father and brothers were at the same kind of school as Colonel Arbuthnot.
~ Agatha Christie
On ülisuur viga lasta inimesel näha või kuulda valel ajal. Enamiku inimeste jaoks kaotab Shakespeare igasuguse võlu seetõttu, et nad koolis on kohustatud teda õppima; Shakespeare'i tuleb laval näha, mängituna nii, nagu autor seda kirjutades ette kujutas. Teatris oskate seda üsnagi noorelt hinnata, ammu enne, kui mõistate sõnade ja värsside ilu.
~ Agatha Christie
I must have a talk with you, David, and learn all the new ideas. As far as I can see, one must hate everybody but at the same time give them free medical attention and a lot of extra education, poor things! All those helpless little children herded into schoolhouses every day—and cod liver oil forced down babies' throats whether they like it or not—such nasty-smelling stuff.
~ Agatha Christie
About Nora Broad} Miss Marple: Was she a girl that did well in school and all that? Mrs. Black: No she wasn't, heh... She was idle, and she wasn't too clever to books either. No, she was "all for the boys." From the time she was twelve years old, onwards.
~ Agatha Christie
There was nothing mass produced about the school, but if it was individualistic, it also had discipline. Discipline without regimentation, was Miss Bulstrode's motto. Discipline, she held, was reassuring to the young, it gave them a feeling of security; regimentation gave rise to irritation.
~ Agatha Christie
A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
~ Agnes de Mille
I learned three important things in college — to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
~ Agnes de Mille
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
~ Agnes Repplier
Seek knowledge even if it's in MACS0647-JD.
~ Ahmad F. Hedayat
People aren't stupid. They're ignorant.
~ Ahmed Korayem
Being a student is like someone behind the bars, only those who burn the midnight oil will get the certificate of freedom.
~ Ahmed Omaar
Ha ka baqin inaad ku guul dareysato imtixaanada, ka cabso inaad mar walba markhaati u noqoto guusha ardayda kale.
~ Ahmed Omaar
Ha ka noqon goobaha waxbarashada macmiil joogto ah! Noqo mid ka midho dhaliya hadafka ardaynimo.
~ Ahmed Omaar
When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.
~ Ai Weiwei
Readers are made not born.
~ Aidan Chambers
Man I studied phychology, Theology, Archeology, the nervous system, The Brain, algerba, Anatomy, read the Bible four times in its entirety, politics, and so much more.
~ Aileen Wuornos
I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn't do anything academically around the arts.
~ Aisha Tyler
In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.
~ Ajay Naidu
As the teacher gave his lessons, he would look over at me from time to time and say, "Akira probably won't understand this, but Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â or "This will be impossible for Akira to solve, but Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â The other children would turn to look at me and snicker when he did this, but no matter how bitter I felt, he was right. Whatever the subject, it was completely incomprehensible to me. I was pained and saddened.
~ Akira Kurosawa