Education Quote by John Banville

“He was one of those who are driven early in life into too conservative an attitude by the bewildering folly of most revolutionists.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“feel that it had not been the most direful mistake in his plan of education. Something must have been wanting within, or time would…

— Jane Austen

“Tyranny over the mind is the most complete and most brutal type of tyranny; every other tyranny begins and ends with it.”

— Anonymous

“More and more he'd begun to recognize the position of importance his students were unconsciously forcing upon him - the ultimate leader of The…

— Todd Strasser

“He thought, This country does attract fanatics and torment them.”

— Karen Fisher

“He was a man who formed opinions as he spoke them, or perhaps afterward, requiring him to ramble at length to grasp what he…

— Tom Rachman

“He read greedily but understood selectively, choosing the bits and pieces of other men's ideas that supported whatever predilection he had at the moment.”

— Toni Morrison

“Like so many creative men of his school he was hounded by an incessant restlessness.”

— Leon Uris

“There was a certain graceful ease and freedom about all he said and did, that gave a sense of repose and expansion to the…

— Anne Brontë

“He had glimpsed a glorious ideal, had struggled toward it and seized it and come to understand it, and was disappointed. One could sympathize.”

— John Gardner

“He felt that to increase his knowledge was to strengthen his hatred. Under certain circumstances, instruction and enlightenment may serve as rallying points for…

— Victor Hugo

“He wanted to toast mad idealism, forbidden desires, the dreams that drove one to criminal acts. He wanted, quite starkly, oblivion.”

— Paul Russell