#education

"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."

"A child's education should begin at least 100 years before he was born."

"She saw why teachers get very old and stay very young. For there is no closer probing of the mind--not even in psychoanalysis."

"No mathematician in the world would bother making these senseless distinctions: 2 1/2 is a "mixed number "while 5/2 is an "improper fraction."They're EQUAL for crying out loud. They are the exact same numbers and have the exact same properties. Who uses such words outside of fourth grade?"

"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."

"There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent."

"Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know."

"There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance."

"Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success."

"In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice."

"Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?"

"Educate yourself to the highest degree."

"The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education."

"Sometimes, the way around prejudice is education."

"One of George H. W. Bush's early teachers at Andover wrote, "At the moment he is intellectually immature for his powers of reasoning are not entirely developed."

"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"

"Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God."

"I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read."

"Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system."

"Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education."