“I want a proper school, sir, to teach reading and writing, and most of all thinking, sir, so people can find out… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“They were learning fast, or at least collecting data, which they considered to be the same as learning.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching? — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
People whose concept of ancient history is the first series of Star Trek may be treated with patience, because it's usually not… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Learnin’ how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
What was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it? — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Well, the traveling teachers do come through every few months," said the Baron. "Yes, sir, I know, sir, and they're useless, sir.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Real education happens when you pick up a fact here, and another fact there, and put them together and get an insight. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“She was not an unkind woman, despite a lifetime of being gently dried out on the stove of education, but she was… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?' — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We live and learn, or, perhaps more importantly we learn and live. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“My word, we live and learn, don't we.' And you certainly learn, he added in the privacy of his head.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up all… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Many things went on at Unseen University and, regrettably, teaching had to be one of them. The faculty had long ago confronted… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Go anywhere you wish, talk to everyone. Ask any questions; you will be given answers. When you want to learn, you will… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
They were small, brightly coloured, happy little creatures who secreted some of the nastiest toxins in the world, which is why the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“This one’s mental.’ ‘Eccentric.’ ‘What’s the difference?’ ‘A bag of cash.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“But I did not return until half past four this morning and I distinctly remember stubbing my toe on the stairs. I am as… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Someone broke from the scrum and, punching and kicking, staggered towards the Klatchian goal. "Isn't that man your butler?" said Ahmed. "Yes." "One of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Magrat wondered what it was like, spending your whole life doing something you didn’t want to do. Like being dead, she considered, only worse,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There were more old people. The world was full of them,' said the wizard. 'Yes, I know. And now it's full of young people.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Hobson was big and heavyset, but not exactly fat; he was probably what you’d get if you shaved a bear.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There is a night that never comes to an end.... The clock of the world turns under its own shadow. Midnight is a moving… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
