Quotes About Education

Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.

That's Doctor Smart-ass. I didn't spend eight years in insult college to be called Mister.

Am I going to be able to provide a real home for her, man? An education? A real life? What's her college application going to look like: 'Raised on Spooky Island by wizard with GED, please help'?

You aren't explaining it very well." "Maybe," I said. "Or maybe you aren't learning it very well.

Stop learning, start dying

make the mistakes of youth is no crime, but not to learn from them is.

If he stayed close enough to Maggie for long enough, the dog might wind up with more education than me. Then there'd be no talking to him.

Internet, she said sagely. Expanding the frontiers of adolescent knowledge.

Knowledge counters fear. It always has.

That's the thing about knowledge, though. The more you learn, the more you realize how much there is to learn.

I feel stupid." "Good," Michael said. "It's good for everyone to feel that way sometimes. It helps remind you how much you still have to learn.

I know how you feel," I said. "You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell. But once you learn something about it, it gets easier to handle. Knowledge counters fear. It always has.

Pythagoras." "Pih-who?" "He invented triangles.

You will never be a leader in any area of your life if you are not a reader in those areas of life.

Algebra is simple.

Imagine if Congress were actually knowledgeable of American history.

I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature.

I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.

I have always collected my thoughts on Sunday, a habit enforced in my childhood when my father gave up on the church and turned to my own education with an energy that must be called unpleasant.

Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.

I also refused the family tradition of Yale and enrolled instead at Michigan State University and then he knew that he had truly lost me, not that he seemed to care.

There should be no rush to have a child reading before age six or seven. That's developmentally the natural time.

since the first edition of this book, much has changed in the world and in American education. And so, too, this book

Which teacher has the bigger influence? Where is more time available for change? Those two numbers—900 and 7,800—will appear over and over in this book.