Quotes About Education

My teachers helped guide and motivate me but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst.

seemed constant, even as to old opinions. Shelly now held a master's degree from Notre

Nor did I share the anxiety with which each one measured up his chances of success. The subjects taught at the lycee did not inspire me in the least. I worked for working's sake. I endured them.

Algebra written across a blackboard hurts As a tight shoe hurts; it can't be walked in. Music, a song score, hurts, How far lies one note from another?

Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.

doormats. It was true that actors had a perception, an understanding of human motive, that normal people lacked. It had nothing to do with intelligence, and very little to do with education.

It was shocking how little history remained with one after a good education.

Lack of education," old Mrs. Sharpe said thoughtfully, "is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive. They had no resources at all.

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

I went to drama school for four years at Carnegie Mellon, conservatory training before television comedy. I was doing Shakespeare and Chekov plays. It's about delivering on the promise of a $100 000 education and taking the shackles off and trying the hand at my craft. I'm thrilled with what I've seen so far.

I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it.

I didn't go to high school, so I don't have a high school experience. I was home-schooled during high school.

The problem with a life spent reading is you know too much.

Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.

I've never been able to ascertain exactly what Angus is studying at UCLA. Library Science or Demonology 101?

His mouth curved. "Do you really know what catalexis is?" "Not a clue. I heard you mention it once. It stuck in my memory because it sounds like a cross between a Cadillac and a Lexus.

It is a little like developing the habit of stealing the test from your teacher's desk instead of learning how to do the math.

what I'm best at is not Tai Chi, and it's not chess. What I'm best at is the art of learning.

Whenever there was a concept or learning technique that I related to in a manner too abstract to convey, I forced myself to break it down into the incremental steps with which I got there.

A whole slew of them lived outside Immita on a big piece of trailer-dotted land everyone called Ducktown, and they were all cousins and brothers and aunts with one another so many times over that it was hard to tell who was exactly related and how. Growing up, I'd had six or so in school right around my grade, but I was a sophomore now, and only one was left. Either the rest had failed so many times I'd left them behind by middle school or they had plain dropped out. OMG

that the bulk of his scholarship was out of my grasp); as

He was dismayed to find that his English—despite years of mandatory instruction in school, months of private lessons with a Bible studies PhD from Exeter visiting Israel to research Christ, repeated encounters with every episode of every season of Sex and the City (subtitled), sporadic encounters with Fast & Furious 1–6 (undubbed), and an aborted reading of the collected works of Sherlock Holmes (abridged)—sucked.

Imagine taking home this beautiful young paleskinned blackhaired late-model Jewess. Into fitness, healthy living. Raised good in better Yonkers. Mother a Hebrew School teacher, which means for her a traditional education.