Quotes About Education

Lo único que hacía era estudiar demasiado, y nunca sabía cuándo debía detenerme.

I may have had a straight A in physics, but I was panick-struck. Physics made me sick the whole time I learned it.

I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big chart of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the perfectly good words like gold and silver and cobalt and aluminum were shortened to ugly abbreviations with different decimal numbers after them.

What I couldn't stand was this shrinking everything into letters and numbers. Instead of leaf shapes and enlarged diagrams of the holes the leaves breathe through and fascinating words like carotene and xanthophyll on the blackboard, there were these hideous, cramped, scorpion-lettered formulas in Mr. Manzi's special red chalk.

If i never learned shorthand I would never have to use it.

whole emphasis has swung again, to a realization that if I enter this academic, critical world, I'll spend all my time reading and reading, and that I need a healthy overturning of the apple-cart, almost a refusal to read beyond a point, and to read more of what influences my writing, rather

The more you learn, the more you earn…and you can take that to the bank!

I don't know about you, but where I went to school, Money Management 101 wasn't offered. Instead we learned about the War of 1812, which of course is something I use every single day.

What you hear, you forget; what you see, you remember; what you do, you understand.

Harv, if you're not doing as well as you'd like, all that means is there's something you don't know.

JeÅ›li sÄ…dzisz, ?e wyksztaÅ'cenie drogo kosztuje, spróbuj niewiedzy - Benjamin Franklin

Si piensas que la formación es cara, prueba con la ignorancia».

Arquivo de riqueza no 17 As pessoas ricas aprendem e se aprimoram o tempo todo. As pessoas de mentalidade pobre acreditam que já sabem tudo.

To those of us who often procrastinate on the decision we feel intimidated by lack of education or any area of weakness. I relieve you with this statement: It is not how much you know that arms you with the tools of great decision making, but rather how much you ask. Ask questions.

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man ( sic ) who has so much as to be out of danger?

No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.

T.S. Eliot said to me "There's only one way a poet can develop his actual writing – apart from self-criticism & continual practice. And that is by reading other poetry aloud – and it doesn't matter whether he understands it or not (i.e. even if it's in another language.) What matters above all, is educating the ear.

Bastard was a term of affection between us, as it usually is in the sub-continent between men who share a Catholic missionary-school education.

A book, you see, is the only kind of trap that keeps its captive—which is knowledge—alive forever.

and everywhere books, books, books

Kunskapsnivån i landet är så otroligt hög att ingen längre tycker det är nån idé att höra på när nån annan pratar.

Apprendre tout au long de sa vie, c'est développer pleinement la sagesse qui vient normalement avec l'âge.

She felt stupid, though she knew she wasn't. She was intelligent, had always been an A student and an overachiever. The fact that her short-term memory came and went didn't make her less intelligent. It just made her feel that way—which made her think other people would feel the same way about her. They would think of her as brain-damaged.

I'd like to find whoever taught the Stump that extra work builds character and push him down the stairs, Neal told Kel at lunch.