Quotes About Education

School, Frankie, school. The books, the books, the books. Get out of Limerick before your legs rot and your mind collapses entirely.

Mr. O'Halloran tells the class it's a disgrace that boys like McCourt, Clarke, Kennedy, have to hew wood and draw water. He is disgusted by this free and independent Ireland that keeps a class system foisted on us by the English, that we are throwing our talented children on the dungheap.

That's what cousin Mark says. We are going to send the twins to the kindergarten next month." "What's the kindergarten?" "Oh, they teach them to make things out of straw and toothpicks—kind of a play place to keep them off the street." "There's one up on Sacramento Street, not far from Polk Street. I saw the sign.

HIGH SCHOOL IS THE PENALTY FOR TRANSGRESSIONS YET TO BE SPECIFIED

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida, is the most respected, and probably the largest, commercial flight-training school in the nation, I was informed. It's the Notre Dame of the air.

Schools train you to be ignorant with style [...] they prepare you to be a usable victim for a military industrial complex that needs manpower. As long as you're just smart enough to do a job and just dumb enough to swallow what they feed you, you're going to be alright [...] So I believe that schools mechanically and very specifically try and breed out any hint of creative thought in the kids that are coming up.

Suddenly, books are arriving every day! So many books, so little time.

I feel a lot of people don't know what high school is - including those who are in it. My material is provided to give them some perspective. People are stupid. They never stop to question things. They just accept. Can you imagine a nation who never questions the validity of cheerleaders and pom-poms?

Çok fazla kitap, çok az zaman...

All these books and all the less time.

Atâtea c?rÈ›i, atât de puÈ›in timp.

I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.

It was very learned, but it didn't actually say anything.

Todas tus medidas pedagógicas han dado en el blanco; no he esquivado ni un solo golpe; tal y como soy, soy el resultado (aparte, claro, de mi constitución y las influencias de la vida) de tu educación y de mi obediencia

Dagegen kann ich jeden Augenblick beweisen, daß meine Erziehung einen anderen Menschen aus mir machen wollte als den, der ich geworden bin. Den Schaden also, den mir meine Erzieher nach ihrer Absicht hätten zufügen können, den mache ich ihnen zum Vorwurf, verlange aus ihren Händen den Menschen, der ich jetzt bin, und da sie ihn mir nicht geben können, mache ich ihnen aus Vorwurf und Lachen ein Trommelschlagen bis in die jenseitige Welt hinein. Doch

States should pass laws making it illegal to own or trade wild animals; the phony 'educational' permits that many private owners have used to skirt those laws should be eliminated.

Most Africans don't get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.

School is supposed to civilise us, to tame our wilder instincts and teach us how to be more sensible, more knowledgeable, and cleverer.

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.

After a couple of years of public high school, I went to Exeter - an insane conglomeration of adolescent males in the wilderness, all of whom claimed to hate poetry.

As parents are usually working, they haven't time to teach children about cooking, and it's a wilderness. They should be given healthy recipes - some standbys so that when they leave home, they don't live on junk.

I put rural Colorado first, and I introduced the MORE PILT Act to support rural law enforcement, search and rescue operations, wildfire fighting and quality education.

I appreciate that I'm in the privileged situation of getting to spend my entire life outdoors with wildlife, and I know first hand how good it makes you feel, and it's a message that I have to try to get across to kids because as an adult, I can see the dangers that normal modern life exacts upon children.

I was interested in wildlife conservation, and I chose Georgia because they supposedly had a good forestry school. I figured it might be easier to get good grades there, too, because a lot of Southern kids would come up to school in New Jersey, and they'd always be a little behind, so I figured maybe I wouldn't have to work so hard.