Quotes About Education

The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where it fits into literature as a whole, seems to me to be manifestly daft.

Actually, I didn't study photography at first. I went to school for painting my first year, poetry my second year, graphic design my third and fourth year, and photography my fifth.

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry

I taught myself Russian, which was very, very useful, especially for poetry and in fact if you can't read Pushkin in Russian, you're really missing something.

I think it's true that that's something that poetry can go to school on fiction. I think poetry can go to fiction to learn.

There is no access to contemporary poetry in the libraries.

In high school I was drawn to the study of literature, poetry Shakespeare, contemporary fiction, drama, you name it - I read it.

I never had much education in English poetry as such.

Americans are not brought up with meter. They're not brought up with poetry. If you try to get them to recite, they're too embarrassed.

I would like my books to stand as a tool to unbind children from expectations of poetry because it should free the child to self-expression and exploration.

Let's be honest - Bill Murray was onto something when he laughed at Andie MacDowell's degree in 19th century French poetry in 'Groundhog Day'.

I bless the gods for not letting my education in rhetoric, poetry, and other literary studies come easily to me, and thereby sparing me from an absorbing interest in these subjects.

Part of what I try to do in schools is take poetry off of a pedestal and make it a little more accessible and approachable.

I thought it was irrelevant to talk about what a wonderful thing poetry was if you didn't teach people to read.

I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills.

If I wouldn't of spent so much time shooting spit wads at my English teacher I'd know how to punctuate good thing I normally write poetry.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

Communism has defeated itself everywhere except... in American colleges.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.