Education Quote by Kilroy J. Oldster

“Writing requires a prolong period of academic education supplemented by studiously scrutinizing society and its customs. Writers also analyze their own nature and physical surroundings, a self-directed exploration of their internal and external environment.” quote by Kilroy J. Oldster — Download Open image

““Writing requires a prolong period of academic education supplemented by studiously scrutinizing society and its customs. Writers also analyze their own nature and physical surroundings, a self-directed exploration of their internal and external environment.””

Kilroy J. Oldster

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings)

Education Memoir-writing Writers Writers-on-thinking Writers-on-writing Writers-quotes Writers-world Writing Writing-philosophy

More by Kilroy J. Oldster

“Disharmony at home or work is toxic to a person’s physical disposition and mental health.”

Kilroy J. Oldster

Image

“The emotional ingredients that sustain long-term relationships are kindness, thoughtfulness, and compassion.”

Kilroy J. Oldster

Image

“Personal disillusionment accompanied by self-pity and self-loathing are the Achilles’ heel of modern humankind, representing the weakness of the human spirit.”

Kilroy J. Oldster

Image

“We nurture our own being by respecting all people and consciously working to mitigate the pain of the world.”

Kilroy J. Oldster

Image

“Life is a collection of memories and feelings. Mawkish sentimentally urges us to engage in artistic overtures, we yearn to share with other people a melody of rudimentary experiences and respond to a stabilizing tune strung together with a shared ethos. We walk in parallel strides with our brethren seeking out equivalent affirmations of our being. We long to shout…

Kilroy J. Oldster

“Time is inexplicable because it moves – clicks away – at steady increments, while increasing the past and bringing the future into the present. Time has a necessary affinity with both heaven and the earthly reality. ‘Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it is the soul of the world.’ Plato said that time and heaven must…

Kilroy J. Oldster

“Each of us, along with our ancestors, inhabits the same cosmos. When we tell stories, we enter the stream of human consciousness; we take…

Kilroy J. Oldster

Image

“A period of darkness is essential in order to expand personal awareness. Experiencing sadness and loss makes a person appreciative of life, more tenderhearted,…

Kilroy J. Oldster

Image

“A person writes similar to how a blind person uses brail. We grope along the palpable corridors of the mind’s organic texture to locate an escape route from a world of obscurity. In our wintry moments, we seek to escape coldblooded suffering. We labor to build a cozy mental environment that we can occupy in peace, a warm hearth to…

Kilroy J. Oldster

“People frequently ask me why I work so hard - prolong hours, infrequent vacations, and never calling in sick or missing work for any…

Kilroy J. Oldster

Image

“The ego is the culmination of our preferences and dislikes. Our ego represents the firm edges of how we perceive ourselves. An ego death involves a merciless destruction of the autobiographical memory system that sustains a person’s collective of bodily and mental images. In order to provoke an ego death, one might choose to pare down their sense of self…

Kilroy J. Oldster

“Witnessing the moonrise each month, a person cannot resist noting a modest sense of optimism tugging at his or her enclosed capsule of bodily…

Kilroy J. Oldster

Image

Explore all 302 Kilroy J. Oldster quotes

More Education quotes

I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial…

Ted Martinez

Image

For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow…

Alfred North Whitehead

Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that…

Henry Giroux

Image

There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very…

Donald Miller

Image

“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even…

Nicholas Sparks

Image

“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will not obtain in it a looking-glass; if he has not a skin of tin he will not be able to endure the toil of education; if he has not leaden posteriors he will not be able…

Ioannes Amos Commenius

“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by”

H.D. (Hilda Doolittle

Image

“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper. And now that I can take it . . . now that I can finally do it . . . I'm really…

Erica Jong