Quotes About Education

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first learning their letters and then learning to spell, if you had ever seen how stupid they can be for a whole morning together, and how tired my poor mother is at the end of it, as I am in the habit of seeing almost every day of my life at home, you would allow that to torment and to instruct might sometimes be used as synonymous words.

You are in a melancholy humour, and fancy that any one unlike yourself must be happy. But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by every body at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience — or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

Give a girl an education, and introduce her properly into the world

Yes, yes, if you please. No reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

All this she must possess, added Darcy, and to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine; she read all such works as heroines must read to supply their memories with those quotations which are so serviceable and so soothing in the vicissitudes of their eventful lives.

By reading only six hours a-day, I shall gain in the course of a twelve-month a great deal of instruction which I now feel myself to want.

Good company requires only birth, manners and education and, with regard to education, I'm afraid it is not very particular

Poverty is a great evil; but to a woman of education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest. I would rather be teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.

Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

She has a fund of good sense and observation which, as a companion, makes her infinitely superior to thousands of those who having only received 'the best education in the world,' know nothing worth attending to.

on the portrayal of women in literature) Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of thing that shocks me; I cannot understand it. Poverty is a great Evil, but to a woman of Education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest. I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.

it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

it is very worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

Poverty is a great evil, but to a woman of education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest.—I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.

A todos nos gusta dar lecciones, pero sólo enseñamos lo que no merece la pena saber.

Credo che in ogni temperamento vi sia una tendenza a qualche male particolare, un difetto di natura che neanche la migliore educazione riesce a vincere.

it is not very wonderful that, with all their promising talents and early information, they should be entirely deficient in the less common acquirements of self-knowledge, generosity and humility. In everything but disposition they were admirably taught.

They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town

san?r?m her yarad?l??ta belli bir kötülüÄŸe doÄŸru eÄŸilim vard?r... doÄŸal bir kusur, en iyi eÄŸitim bile üstesinden gelemez. sizin kusurunuz herkesten nefret etme eÄŸilimi. sizinki de, dedi Darcy gülümseyerek, isteyerek herkesi yanl?? anlama.

That is a failing indeed! cried Elizabeth. Implacable resentment is a shade in a character. But you have chosen your fault well. I really cannot laugh at it. You are safe from me. There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil—a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome. And your defect is to hate everybody. And yours, he replied with a smile, is willfully to misunderstand them. Do

His reading has done him no harm, for he has fought as well as read.