Quotes About Education

tuition, lots of fund-raising and often

I don't have any kids, so I'm not as worried about my heirs as the rest of you, but still: I think the youth of tomorrow might be better off if they knew the physical sensation of cracking a spine and turning the page.

reading was the cornerstone of self-esteem, success, and even a simple pleasure that was lifelong. She

since the AP curriculum was nationally standardized. If they wanted to turn the public schools into chain stores, it worked for him.

how much of their own money teachers spent on their students.

under the law, schools were required to evaluate a child and formulate an individualized education program, or an IEP, to set forth the services and support he was supposed to receive and to help him achieve in his areas of need.

memoir Teacher Man.

My mom can't even believe they got into Brandywine Hunt. My dad will be so pissed.

school tomorrow.

I love libraries and am their huge supporter, speaking at them and raising funds whenever I can.

restricted to thirty students.

the widespread illiteracy of Sicily in the 1800s was one reason the class system was fixed in place, denying opportunity and equality to so many.

attending USC or Occidental.

You are very smart. You must be very well educated. You are very pretty. You must be very rich because you're a writer.

My dad and I were in the kitchen, bent over the table while he tried to help me with my trigonometry homework—which, PS, addled my brain and has yet in life to reveal its practical application.

A better reason why we, and other intelligent species, are born with such poorly developed brains is so that we can learn.

Children's literature as a literary aberration or at best a minor amusement is a notion held most strongly by people who read the fewest children's books. I think it was Ruth Hill Viguers who compared this attitude with asking a pediatrician when he's going to stop fooling around and get down to the serious business of treating adults.

always busy because of interesting books

It will help when you learn them. Fear dims when you learn things.

No one had told her what "birth" meant.

Fear dims when you learn things

We're required to learn to swim but we're not allowed in the river," she found herself telling him.

Fear dims when you learn things -Alys

But this room's walls were completely covered by bookcases, filled, which reached to the ceiling. There must have been hundreds—perhaps thousands—of books, their titles embossed in shiny letters.