Quotes on school

Quotes on school

They are called finishing-schools and the name
tells accurately what they are. They finish
everything ….
—Olive Schreiner, The Story of an African Farm

The people I’m furious with are the Women’s Liberationists. They
keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming women are brighter
than men. That’s true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole
racket. —Anita Loos, quoted in The Observer (London), 1973

Man’s knowledge of things will begin to be matched by man’s knowl-
edge of self. The significance of a smaller world will be measured not in
terms of military advantage, but in terms of advantage for the human
community. It will be the triumph of the heartbeat over the drumbeat.
—Adlai Stevenson, speech (Springfield, Illinois), 1952

They know enough who know how to learn. —Henry Adams, The
Education of Henry Adams, 1907

Begin with that most terrifying of all things, a clean slate. And then
look, every day, at the choices you are making and when you ask
yourself why you are making them, find this answer: for me, for me.
—Anna Quindlen, commencement address, Mount Holyoke College
(South Hadley, Massachusetts), 1999

The things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.
—Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, c. 325 b.c.e.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauli-
flower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. —Mark Twain,
Pudd’n’head Wilson, 1894

Willie had left school after the ninth grade. He said there was really
nothing more they could teach him. He knew how to read and write
and reason. And from here on in, it was all propaganda. —Gloria
Naylor, Linden Hills, 1985

You can’t learn everything you need to know
legally.
—John Irving, Trying to Save Piggy Sneed,

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with
gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. —Carl Gustav
Jung, “The Gifted Child,” (1942) The Development of Personality, R. F. C.
Hull, tr., 1954

What is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total devel-
opment lags behind? —Maria Montessori, The Absorbent Mind, 1967

My brain: it’s my second favorite organ. —Woody Allen, Sleeper , 1973

I’ve got more brains in my little finger than I have in my entire head!
—Goodman Ace, Easy Aces radio show, 1930s–1940s

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it
keeps its brain. —J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,
1999

What the brain does by itself is infinitely more
fascinating and complex than any response it
can make to chemical stimulation.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven, 1971

My nephew is in high school. He’s a member of the abstinence society,
where a group of students have pledged to maintain their virginity. We
had something similar at my high school—it was called the math club.
—Brian Kiley, Jokes, Getlen

Nothing would more effectively further the development of educa-
tion than for all flogging pedagogues to learn to educate with the head
instead of with the hand. —Ellen Key, The Century of the Child, 1909
You don’t appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little
things, like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman—stuff
you pay good money for later in life. —Emo Philips, Jokes,

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a
week sometimes to make it up. —Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad,
1869

Grant that I may be successful in molding one of my pupils into a per-
fect poem, and let me leave within her deepest-felt melody that she may
sing for you when my lips shall sing no more. —Gabriela Mistral, “The
Teacher’s Prayer,” Desolacion, 1922

True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words. —Mary
Wortley Montagu, letter (1753), Letters

You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. —John Irving, The Hotel
New Hampshire, 1981

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that
is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot
stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again—and that is
well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more. —Mark
Twain, Following the Equator , 1897

College is something you complete. Life is
something you experience.
—Jon Stewart, commencement address, College of William and
Mary (Williamsburg, Virginia), 20 May 2004

I won’t say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner.
We used to write essays like “What I’m Going to Be If I Grow Up.”
—Lenny Bruce, Jokes, Getlen

Don’t you believe ’em when they say that what you don’t know won’t
hurt you. Biggest lie ever was. See it all and go your own way and
nothing’ll hurt you. If what you see ain’t pretty, what’s the odds! See it
anyway. Then next time you don’t have to look. —Edna Ferber, Show
Boat, 1926

There can be no education without leisure, and without leisure education
is useless. —Sarah Josepha Hale, Godey’s Lady’s Book (passim), 1837–1877

… the lovely satisfying unity of things—the wedding of the thing learnt
and the thing done—the great intellectual fulfillment. —Dorothy L.
Sayers, quoted by Barbara Reynolds, Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and
Soul, 1993

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale
manufacturer of misunderstanding? —Philip Roth, The Counterlife, 1969

No facts taught here are worth anything until students have assimilated
them, correlated them, interpreted them. It is the student, not the bit 
of knowledge, that we are teaching. —Dr. Bernard Iddings Bell, motto,

I’m not a fan of facts. You see, the facts can change, but my opinion
will never change, no matter what the facts are. —Stephen Colbert, 
The Colbert Report

She always says, my lord, that facts are
like cows. If you look them in the face hard
enough they generally run away.
—Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness, 1956

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wher-
ever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be
tethered on a ten-foot chain. —Adlai Stevenson, speech, University of
Wisconsin (Madison), 1952

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or
system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important
subject which we as a people can be engaged in. —Abraham Lincoln,
address to the people of Sangamo County, 1832

So this gentlemen said, “A girl with brains ought to do something else
with them besides think.” —Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1925

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