Quotes About Education

Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.

Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then they blame the family for its failure to be a family.

Mathematicians use intuition, conjecture and guesswork all the time except when they are in the classroom.

As a teacher you can see the difference in kids who have parents who were involved. That difference, by the time these kids get to the third grade, is drastic.

I went to a Catholic high school and it seemed like every time I drew something for a class project, it either got thrown away by the teacher or something.

A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

I just barely got through school. The problem was a learning disability, at a time when there was no where to get help.

. . . top management should spend 40 to 50 percent of its time educating and motivating its people . . .

That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite of it. They are the ones the teachers couldn't spoil.

It does not seem to me that I have the right to foist a story on people, most of whom are children who should be learning all the time, unless I am learning from it too.

Right now, for instance, we resist giving people extra time on exams or for assignments, as though it's unfair to the faster students.

I hated school . . . . One of the reasons was a learning disability, dyslexia, which no one understood at the time. I still can't spell . . .

But I loved the theatre and I was just doing theatre 24/7 and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.

We need to understand that every time an elementary teacher captures the imagination of a child through the arts or music of language this nation gets a little stronger.

It is cruelty to children to keep five-year-olds sitting still, gazing into vacancy even for one hour at a time. We have little idea of the torture we thus inflict.

I think that teachers have the hardest job in the world, and they are the most unsung heroes so much of the time.

They tried to make me go to Catholic school, too. I lasted a very short time. When the penguin came after me with a ruler, I was out of there.

How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.

It's time to teach our daughters that their ability to be good people depends on their being good people, not on whether or not they're sexually active.

In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.

There was a long time I had no job security, no options and no education.

When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn't the thing to be seen doing - reading a book in your spare time.

I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.