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Quotes About Education

I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
~ Harper Lee
Little Chuck Little, a hundred years old in his knowledge of cows and their habits, was halfway through an Uncle Natchell story when Miss Gates stopped him: 'Charles, that is not a current event. That is an advertisement.
~ Harper Lee
Dear goodness, the things you learned.
~ Harper Lee
You can't do that, Scout," Atticus said. "Sometimes it's better to bend the law a little in special cases. In your case, the law remains rigid. So to school you must go.
~ Harper Lee
As for me, I knew nothing except what I gathered from Time magazine and reading everything I could lay hands on at home
~ Harper Lee
I'm Charles Baker Harris, he said, and I can read.
~ Harper Lee
The only reason Henry's like he is now is because your father took him in hand when he was a boy, and because the war came along and paid for his education. Fine a boy as he is, the trash won't wash out of him.
~ Harper Lee
Do you defend niggers, Atticus?' I asked him that evening. 'Of course I do. Don't say nigger, Scout. That's common.' ''s what everybody at schools says.' 'From now on it'll be everybody less one -' 'Well if you don't want me to grow up talkin' that way, wh ydo you send me to school?
~ Harper Lee
you better go warn your younger friends that if they want to preserve Our Way of Life, it begins at home. It doesn't begin with the schools or the churches or anyplace but home.
~ Harper Lee
You never went to school and you do all right, so I'll just stay home too. You can teach me like Grandaddy taught you 'n' Uncle Jack." "No
~ Harper Lee
That doesn't mean you hafta talk that way when you know better," said Jem.
~ Harper Lee
We don't write in the first grade, we print. You won't learn to write until you're in the third grade.
~ Harper Lee
You are fascinated with yourself. You will say anything that occurs to you, but what I can't understand are the things that do occur to you. I should like to take your head apart, put a fact in it, and watch it go its way through the runnels of your brain until it comes out of your mouth. We were both born here, we went to the same schools, we were taught the same things. I wonder what you saw and heard.
~ Harper Lee
The scholastic level of that school down the street, Atticus, couldn't be any lower and you know it.
~ Harper Lee
The Dewey Decimal System consisted, in part, of Miss Caroline waving cards at us on which were printed 'the', 'cat', 'rat', 'man', and 'you'.
~ Harper Lee
I was bored, so I began a letter to Dill. Miss Caroline caught me writing and told me to tell my father to stop teaching me. "Besides," she said. "We don't write in the first grade, we print. You won't learn to write until you're in the third grade.
~ Harper Lee
DoÄŸru konuÅŸmakla onlara doÄŸru konuÅŸmay? öÄŸretemezsiniz. Kendileri öÄŸrenmeliler...
~ Harper Lee
everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowing.
~ Harper Lee
Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading.
~ Harper Lee
As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County School system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me.
~ Harper Lee
Miss Caroline parecía no darse cuenta que los andrajosos alumnos de la primera clase, los cuales habían cortado algodón y cebado puercos desde que supieron andar, eran inmunes a la literatura de imaginación
~ Harper Lee
Everybody did; most of the first grade had failed it last year.
~ Harper Lee
Kad je gospo?ica Kerolajn stigla do mesta gde Gospa-Ma?ka poziva samoposlugu da naru?i miševe u slatkom ?okoladnom prelivu, razred se ve? vrpoljio kao crvi?i za pecanje u tegli. Izgleda da gospo?ica Kerolajn nije bila svesna toga da su odrpani, u košulje od grubog platna i suknje od džakova za brašno odeveni prvaci, od kojih je ve?ina po?ela brati pamuk i hraniti svinje ?im je prohodala, bili neprijem?ivi za književne maštovitosti.
~ Harper Lee
In the early 1700s, this mirrored the situation in England and the rest of Europe, but medicine on the Continent began to undergo modernizing changes, although these were very slow to cross the Atlantic. Europe began to embrace public-health measures and medical advances such as widespread vaccination, scientific medical education, and the rise of the hospital, but American progress lagged behind, especially in the insular South. The
~ Harriet A. Washington