Quotes About Education

wasn't education a matter of infusing one's life with flavorful essences, pressing out the impurities, and leaving only a little sludge at the bottom?

Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.

Father emptied a card file for Margot and me and filled it with index cards that are blank on one side. This is to become our reading file, in which Margot and I are supposed to note down the books we've read, the author and the date.

teachers are the most unpredictable creatures on earth. Maybe this time they'll be unpredictable in the right direction for a change.

Esta semana he leído mucho y he estudiado poco. Así han de hacerse las cosas en este mundo, y así seguro que se llega lejos...

The only way to take one's mind off it all is to study, and I do a lot of that.

I finally realized that I must do my schoolwork to keep from being ignorant, to get on in life, to become a journalist, because that's what I want! I know I can write.

but teachers are the most unpredictable creatures on earth.

She's also the one who brings five library books with her every Saturday. We long for Saturdays because that means books. We're like a bunch of little kids with a present. Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up. Our only diversions are reading, studying and listening to the radio.

Usually, when I want to know something, I find it in some book or other, don't you?

teachers are the greatest freaks on earth,....

We three have been raised in good families, we have the opportunity to get an education and make something of ourselves. We have many reasons to hope for great happiness, but... we have to earn it. And that's something you can't achieve by taking the easy way out. Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

Mia: I can't do this, I'm a girl. Gym Teacher Harbula: What am I? A duck?

Becoming a better writer is going to help you become a better reader, and that is the real payoff.

But you can't teach writing, people tell me. And I say, 'Who the hell are you, God's dean of admissions?

they seemed to read all the papers the school sent home, which I think is actually a little show-offy.

Even as we improved as teachers and as students, the children continued to have raging impulse-control problems; the very thing that made them spontaneous and immediate could also make them mean...The other teachers and I had dreamed of taking the kids on field trips, to remove them from the grip and tangle of life -- of a day on the beach; of sandy, sacramental hot dogs; of playing in the ocean, making sculptures, and drawing with sticks. But we could barely manage them in class.

when people don't have free access to books, then communities are like radios without batteries.

One time, in one of my classes, I asked my students to write about lunches for half an hour, and I sat down with them and wrote:

The mind that will not admit it has something more to learn tomorrow is in danger of stagnating.

The AI told her not long ago that her Why? period might have been the shortest on record - because Mum and Dad answered every Why? in detail AND made sure she understood, so she wouldn't ask that particular Why? again. After a month Why? wasn't fun anymore, and she went on to other things.

Some academic pursuit had been a suggestion; she found study absorbing, but the tutorial positions open to women were few, and the restrictions of the life did not appeal to her. She read for pleasure.

I've always been my own teacher. And I must confess I've been my favorite pupil a well.

Ah, Stefan, give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed.