#education

"Most often a country is poor when its educational system is poor and individuals do not strive to become educated."

"I had not expected the gentle, tentative surge of gratitude I began to feel...for St. Paul's School, the spring, and the early morning. I needed the morning light and the warbling birds. I needed to find a way to live in this place for a moment and get the good of it. I had tried to hold myself apart, and the aloneness proved more terrible than what I had tried to escape."

"What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship."

"Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future."

"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it"

"The quality of the relationships that students have in class with their peers and teachers is important to their success in school."

"Although any help is genuinely welcomed, it is more important to be a supportive, proactive parent than it is to be a supportive parent after academic failure and negative behaviors occur."

"Depth of understanding involves something which is more than merely a matter of deconstructive alertness; it involves a measure of interpretative charity and at least the beginnings of a wide responsiveness."

"I wouldn’t have minded school if they taught you important things like how to have good sex and what brand of wine is the best… But for some reason they were hell bent on teaching me algebra"

"A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure. And educated people, who should be on his side, acquiesce in the process, because they know nothing about him and consequently are afraid of him."

"I learned to write nice as hell. Birds an' stuff like that, too; not just word writin'. My ol' man'll be sore when he sees me whip out a bird in one stroke. Pa's gonna be mad when he sees me do that. He don't like no fancy stuff like that. He don't even like word writin'. Kinda scare 'im, I guess. Ever' time Pa seen writin', somebody took somepin away from 'im."

"Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education."

"Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!"

"Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire."

"Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence."

"To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools."

"The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught."

"Speciesism is morally objectionable because, like racism, sexism, and heterosexism, it links personhood with an irrelevant criterion. Those who reject speciesism are committed to rejecting racism, sexism, heterosexism, and other forms of discrimination as well."

"Under her high brows, she eyed him straight on and straight across. She had gone to girls' schools, he recalled later. Those girls looked straight at you."

"We will continue to chase rainbows unless we recognize that they are rainbows and there is no pot of gold at the end of them."