Quotes About Education

She was probably sixty, a big rawboned woman with a man's face, and her clothes, if not her very pores, seemed always to exude that dry essence of pencil shavings and chalk dust that is the smell of school. She was strict and humorless, preoccupied with rooting out the things she held intolerable: mumbling, slumping, daydreaming, frequent trips to the bathroom, and, the worst of all, "coming to school without proper supplies."  

And I thought the whole point of my education was that violence IS the answer.

Honor, I thought. For real: the guardians should have taught it. Because I hadn't learned it.

I, had an excellent instructor. One that you currently have locked up. If you want to talk about skills going to waste, then go look in your own jail.

Did you just use juxtaposition in a sentence?" "Yes, Sage" he said patiently. "We use it all the time with art, ... That, and I know how to use a dictionary

Sydney! Stop. Think of something else. Conjugate Latin verbs. Recite the periodic table.

Besides, I could hardly complain to the administration that I was being forced to learn magic.

if you'd teach me to swear in russian, i might have a new appreciation for it

Study's overrated. Just find someone smart to copy off. -Adrian to Lissa

Lissa and I had been best friends ever since kindergarden, when our teacher had paired us together for writing lessons. Forcing five-year-olds to spell "Vasilisa Dragomir" and "Rosemarie Hathaway" was beyond cruel and we'd -or rather, I'd- responded appropriately. I'd chucked my book at our teacher and called her a fascist bastard. I hadn't known what those words meant, but I'd known how to hit a moving target.

Culinary science? You elected culinary science? That's the most brainless class ever. -Rose to Christian

Sydney: I like Latin. It's fun. Eddie: I can't believe you think we're the strange ones.

I'm telling you, you'd like him. He goes to a public school and just started at Spencer's. The other day, he was going off on unaerobic vs. aerobic respiration, and I was thinking, 'You know who this sounds like? Melbourne.'" -- Trey

Violence isn't the answer to your problems," he said sagely. "She's the one with the problem. And I thought the whole point of my education was that violence is the answer.

History is important because it teaches us about past. And by learning about the past, ypu come to understand the present, so that you may make educated decisions about the future.

A girl just asked for SAT scores good enough to get her into Yale. I think she was nine.

I felt nerdy until the day I earned an impressed "Where did you learn that, Sage?

History is important because it teaches us about the past. And by learning about the past, you come to understand the present, so that you may make educated decisions about the future.

This college would probably have the same problem as the last one did." I frowned, "What's that?" "Homework

Which is why you need to graduate." "But I dropped out." She snorted. "then drop back in!" "I-what? How?

algunos maestros de la Biblia son capaces de tomar el libro más apasionante del mundo y con él aburrir a las personas hasta las lágrimas.

We hire for learnability—we deliberately select people for their capacity to learn new things.

Here it is,' Nigel said. Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs FFI, Mrs C, Mrs U, Mrs LTY. That spells difficulty.' How perfectly ridiculous!' snorted Miss Trunchbull. 'Why are all these women married?

A BOOK?! WHAT D'YOU WANNA FLAMING BOOK FOR?...WE'VE GOT A LOVELY TELLY WITH A 12-INCH SCREEN AND NOW YA WANNA BOOK!