Academic Quote by John Updike

In school we did all sorts of things, molds, slab building. We were not very proficient on the wheel because the woman who taught…

— Warren MacKenzie

The educational highlights I remember were not in the classroom. My father spent a lot of time with me when he could. He taught…

— Angus Deaton

Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized; in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their…

— Simon van der Meer

Medieval learning was really advanced.

— Terry Jones

I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually…

— Mary Augusta Ward

There's one thing my old man taught me and it's the best thing he taught me. It wasn't education at college or university –…

— Marcus Wareing

We have a lot to learn from the Tudor education system. It had diversity, placed rigorous demands on its students, and encouraged high achievement.

— David Starkey

Our education system was developed for an industrial era where we could teach certain skills to our children and they were able to use…

— Naveen Jain

I wanted to really just understand... how could a whole generation of children who were just children at the time - boys riding their…

— Christine Leunens

Education was like progression with time not age, somehow the gap grew between common sense and knowing how to approach.

— Ucunted

For almost 10 years, I taught hearing children how to read, how to write, how to count, and, most importantly, how to be with…

— Lauren Ridloff

I'm grateful for my time in New England. It taught me a lot. It just didn't gel out how I wanted.

— Mohamed Sanu