Quotes About Education

You've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books, you're very well read, it's well known.

Cohn had a packet of Goldman Sachs–style charts and tables to educate the president on taxes. Trump was not interested and did not read it.

Trump was a guy who "never went to class. Never got the syllabus.

Several passengers also mentioned "6MWE." Smith did not know what they were talking about. He was horrified to learn, listening as some passengers explained and discussed openly that it meant "6 million weren't enough," a reference to the 6 million Jews exterminated in Nazi concentration camps.

He doesn't like intellectuals. Trump was a guy who "never went to class. Never got the syllabus. Never took a note. Never went to a lecture. The night before the final, he comes in at midnight from the fraternity house, puts on a pot of coffee, takes your notes, memorizes as much as he can, walks in at 8 in the morning and gets a C.

He was at MIT for 42 years or something. He was a great—so I understand that stuff. You know, genetically.

Trump was a guy who "never went to class. Never got the syllabus. Never took a note. Never went to a lecture. The night before the final, he comes in at midnight from the fraternity house, puts on a pot of coffee, takes your notes, memorizes as much as he can, walks in at 8 in the morning and gets a C. And that's good enough. He's going to be a billionaire.

My education has been so unwitting I can't quite tell which of my thoughts come from me and which from my books, but that's how I've stayed attuned to myself and the world around me for the past thirty-five years. Because when I read, I don't really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqueur until the thought dissolves in me like alcohol, infusing brain and heart and coursing on through the veins to the root of each blood vessel.

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

There are people who barely feel poetry, and they are generally dedicated to teaching it.

comprendió con alguna amargura que nada podía esperar de aquellos alumnos que aceptaban con pasividad su doctrina y sí de aquellos que arriesgaban, a veces, una contradicción razonable. Los primeros, aunque dignos de amor y de bueno afecto, no podían ascender a individuos; los últimos preexistían un poco más.

Uno llega a ser grande por lo que lee y no por lo que escribe.

All these twelve years of secondary school and university, Yura had studied classics and religion, legends and poets, the sciences of the past and of nature, as if it were all the family chronicle of his own house, his own genealogy.

Mieux vaudrait apprendre à faire l'amour correctement que de s'abrutir sur un livre d'histoire.

Qu'est-ce que vous faites dans la vie, vous? demanda le professeur. - J'apprends des choses (...)

Let's face it—you don't find many Indian or Jewish cliques in prison (mostly because we're all in medical school. Haha).

Heaven help them all if that man was solely responsible for educating his brothers—though that did explain everyone's liberal profanity.

CHILDHOOD IS THE FOUNDATION STONE UPON which stands the whole life structure. The seed sown in childhood blossoms into the tree of life. The education which is imparted in childhood is more important than the education which is received in colleges and universities. In the process of human growth, proper guidance along with environmental learning is important.

A life of knowledge is not often a life of injury and crime.

Sometimes college seemed merely an endless exhausting string of appointments.

Woodrow Wilson, like most other educated Americans of his time, despised mathematics, complaining that the natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be leaned by painful process of drill.

Woodrow Wilson, like most other educated Americans of his time, despised mathematics, complaining that "the natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill.

The Nashes pushed Johnny as hard socially as they did academically. At first, it was Boy Scout camp and Sunday Bible classes; later on, lessons at the Floyd Ward dancing school and membership in the John Aldens Society, a youth organization devoted to improving the manners of its members.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.