Hard To Explain Quote by Amanda Ripley

“Plus she’d been taught to appreciate what she had. It seemed as if today’s kids focused on things they didn’t have and how to…

— Kendra Elliot

“I think I’m able to explain things because understanding wasn't entirely easy for me. Some things that the most brilliant students were able to…

— Carl Sagan

“It seems that we had...not a better education, per se, but perhaps more incentive to use it. They learn, but they hardly think.”

— Ilona Andrews

“that had little to do with the real world. I felt like school, and this way of learning—cramming random knowledge into my head and…

— Kevin Hart

“I didn't normally talk this way: but sometimes you have to pretend to be an innocent child to learn something about the complicated world…

— Brock Clarke

“I was a kid; I had plenty more to do; I'd been through some crap but I was learning from it”

— Ned Vizzini

“It was funny. The adults taking all this so seriously, and the children playing along, playing along, believing it too until suddenly the adults…

— Orson Scott Card

“Grown ups never understood anything by themselves. And it is rather tedious to have to explain things to them time and again”

— Antoine de Saint Exupéry

“It was a surprise, and a delight, to see children devour books. Without ever knowing it, they were receiving an education.”

— Pat Frank

“understanding something didn’t make it easier.”

— Susanna Kearsley

“This had become a game of ours. We were serious kids made more so by the times.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

“School might have been shit, but at least it was simple.”

— Mark Haddon