Education Quotes by Robertson Davies

One can always tell it's summer when one sees school teachers hanging about the streets idly, looking like cannibals during a shortage…

— Robertson Davies

People are not saints just because they haven't got much money or education.

— Robertson Davies

I think we should see whether we are wise trying to educate everybody to a high standard the way we are trying…

— Robertson Davies

“Education is a great shield against experience. It offers so much, ready-made and all from the best shops, that there's a temptation…

— Robertson Davies

“I liked the company of most of my colleagues, who were about equally divided among good men who were good teachers, awful…

— Robertson Davies

“If a boy can't have a good teacher, give him a psychological cripple or an exotic failure to deal with; don't just…

— Robertson Davies

The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is…

— Robertson Davies

The first principle, when you don't know anything about the subject of a thesis, is to let the candidate talk, nodding now…

— Robertson Davies

They're all so highly educated, you know. Education is a great shield against experience. It offers so much, ready-made and all from…

— Robertson Davies

“What really shapes and conditions and makes us is somebody only a few of us ever have the courage to face: and…

— Robertson Davies

“The older I grow the less Christ's teaching says to me. I am sometimes very conscious that I am following the path…

— Robertson Davies

“Schoolmastering kept me busy by day and part of each night. I was an assistant housemaster, with a fine big room under…

— Robertson Davies