Quotes About Education

Okay, so it's like each of these books is a mystery. Every book is a mystery. And if you read all the books ever written, it's like you've read one giant mystery. And no matter how much you learn, you just keep on learning there is so much more you need to learn.

Okay, now you're officially a freak," I said. "Yes, it's a small library. It's a tiny one. But if you read one of these books a day, it would still take you almost ten years to finish." "What's your point?" "The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know." Wow.

Okay, so it's like each of these books is a mystery every book is a mystery. And if you read all the books ever written, it's like you've read one giant mystery. And no matter how much you learn, you just keep on learning there is so more you need to learn.

She'd teach him nineteen different ways to spell matriarchy.

And no matter how much you learn, you just keep on learning there is so much more you need to learn.

He smiled mysteriously. Adults are so good at smiling mysteriously. Do they go to college for that?

She'd been a resourceful thief, a narcissistic Robin Hood who stole a rich education from white people and kept it.

I took a job teaching private-school white teenagers how to edit video. They used their newly developed skills to make documentaries about poor brown people in other countries. It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.

Can a book rightfully be called a book if it never gets read?

The professor ignored Lynn's comments and proceeded with his lecture.

Someone else has to be disseminating it. (Mark) Dis-a what? (Nick) Disseminating. It means distributing it. (Mark) Then why didn't you say that? (Nick) Remind me to get him a word-of-the-day calendar. (Mark)

My father was a history professor, and my mother a housewife— She married a house?

Where'd you learn to drive? (Steele) Richard Petty's School of Driving. Had a great instructor there named Steven Norbert who showed me how to dog the shit out of en engine. Why? (Joe)

Education (the institution) has now adopted values, attitudes, and practices that make any rigorous understanding of the human self and life impossible.

Nothing replaces real-life experience. Of course, I say this as someone who went to law school.

Wow, just imagine missing school on the day when they were learning blue. You'd spend the rest of your life wondering what color the sky is.

Life experience is the best teacher.

Nothing ever invented can you a bigger life than a book.

Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life.

That's what's good about life - that you always learn.

Jean Valentine and Jane Cooper were my professors at Sarah Lawrence College - and they were uncompromised in their art. They gave me models of how to live one's life as a poet.

I've worked with children all my life.

My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.

I'd been a terrific student. I hadn't wasted a moment of my time in school, and I knew plenty about healing the troubled mind. But no one had taught me a thing about healing the soul