Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
One of [ways being lucky] was to go to school during the Great Depression because teaching became a plum job. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You say what you have to say. But you have to learn to say it in such a way that the reader… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Get plenty of education. Lead you class in all things. Keep your body clean and strong. Keep your opinions to yourself.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The visitor from outer space made a serious study of Christianity, to learn, if he could, why Christians found it so easy… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We used to have superb public schools. I guess we don't anymore, but, boy, the public schools were really something and I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“After the war, I went to the University of Chicago, where I was pleased to study anthropology, a science that was mostly… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“...all subjects do not reside in neat little compartments, but are continuous and inseparable from the one big subject we have been… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You might just learn something when you're in a mood to learn something. The only thing I ever learned was that some… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The visitor from outer space made a serious study of Christianity, to learn, if he could, why Christians found it so easy… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I can think of another quickie education for a child, which, in its way, is almost as salutary: Meeting a human being… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The very best thing you can be in life is a teacher, provided you are crazy in love with what you teach,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“So what indeed! The lesson I myself learned over and over again when teaching at the college and then the prison was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“FËDOR Mikhailovich Dostoevski, the Russian novelist, said one time that, "One sacred memory from childhood is perhaps the best education." I can… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“But when I roamed New York City, knowing so much and capable of speaking so nicely, and yet so lonely, and often… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“As Mary delivered what was to be her last lecture about the Galapagos Islands, she would be stopped mid-sentence for five seconds… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It was The Gospel From Outer Space, by Kilgore Trout. It was about a visitor from outer space...[who] made a serious study… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The visitor from outer space made a serious study of Christianity, to learn, if he could, why Christians found it so easy… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You must bloom as a writer and I must bloom as a painter. Everything else about us is uninteresting.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Have a good nap, did you?” said the porter. “Yes,” said Billy. “Man,” said the porter, “you sure had a hard-on.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain wrote in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Thomas Jefferson High School [..] His high school was named after a slave owner who was also one of the world’s greatest theoreticians on… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I had a certain amount of skill as a dramatist, and Dr. Goebbels wanted me to use it” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The town was Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Her face was one of a kind, a surprising variation that made observers think, Yes--that would be another very nice way for people to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You finally fell in love, I see,” said Salo. “Only an Earthling year ago,” said Constant. “It took us that long to realize that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Like all Earthlings at the point of death, Mary Young sent faint reminders of herself to those who had known her. She released a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And contrast Mary Kathleen, if you will, with my wife Ruth, the Ophelia of the death camps, who believed that even the most intelligent… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image