College student Quote by Koren Zailckas Download Open image ““So apparently all homeschooled kids spoke like pretentious liberal arts college students.”” — Koren Zailckas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare College student College students Liberal arts
“was a hardcore homeschooler, K-12, baby. I was homeschooled before it was cool to be homeschooled. And you know what? I hardly remember anything… — Stephen Altrogge Copy Share Image
“Homeschooling moms are what remains of the leisured classes in these hurried, frantic days.” — Cindy Rollins Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, all children were homeschooled. They were not sent away from home each day to a place just for children but… — Rachel Gathercole Copy Share Image
“We can get too easily bogged down in the academic part of homeschooling, a relatively minor part of the whole, which is to raise… — Diane Flynn Keith Copy Share Image
“Many highly schooled people are uneducated, and many highly "educated" people are unschooled.” — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“Had I ever spent the day in our neighborhood public high school as an invisible woman while my children were still enrolled there, I… — Jeanne Ray Copy Share Image
“For those of you who may be homeschooled: high school is that four-year asylum where they put teenagers because we have no idea what… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share Image
“making sure that “school” revolved around home life, not home life around school.” — Durenda Wilson Copy Share Image
“When we talk about homeschooling today, we're amazed at how many people agree that they didn't learn much in school, that school teaches kids… — Linda Dobson Copy Share Image
“On one of these gatherings, a guest speaker informed us that in 30 years, no one in America except the homeschoolers would know how… — Matthew Pierce Copy Share Image
“And I submit that this is what the real, no-shit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: How to keep… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“School and home seem to recede from us and their influences upon us seemed to wane.” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
My short stature may have something to do with my tendency to shout when enraged. How else is anyone going to hear me way… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did occur, they… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
I think when you're 14 years old, I think you're sort of looking for markers that prove you're an adult and you're independent of… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
What makes a narcissistic mother so scary? Her absolute power and controlling influence. A narcissistic mother is your only 'friend,' at least until you're… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
“Instead of seeing bad in yourself, you perceive it in others. It’s a defense mechanism. One that allows people to go on believing they’re… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
For the first month of school, writing is its own upper. Pounding on my computer keys feels like playing the piano, like arranging words… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
Having a child doesn't make a woman a mother any more than owning a paintbrush makes her Frida Kahlo. — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
I'm sick of the ignorance that lack of funding has generated, of the fathers who apporach me at dinner parties with their four-year-old girls… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
If mothers are our first teachers, then having a narcissistic one teaches us that human closeness is terrifying, and the world is a heartless,… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
I don't know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, it's always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia.… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
Since I've quit drinking, I'm not sure I've found the good life, but I've certainly uncovered a better one. — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
I've always been a late bloomer in some ways, and extremely precocious in other ways. When I was twenty I was living in New… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
I been partyn alot.. Oh freakin well! Im single and a college student so Im living my life! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Only one-third of college students from the bottom quarter of households graduate, while two-thirds of students from the top quarter do. Both ability and… — Peter Temin Copy Share Image
“In a laboratory study, a researcher from Virginia Commonwealth University observed college students during a three-hour study session using video cameras and eye trackers… — Adam Gazzaley Copy Share Image
“What advice would you give to a smart, driven college student about to enter the “real world”? What advice should they ignore? Nobody really… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
I was pretty poor for a long time. Not *poor* poor. But college student poor. I lived for most of my adult life living… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
There's definitely a world view among college students that appreciates the need to act in the international community. — Jeanne Shaheen Copy Share Image
“Novelist Sinclair Lewis was supposed to deliver an hour-long lecture to a group of college students who planned to be writers. Lewis opened his… — Peter Prichard Copy Share Image
Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material for drama… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The other component was to build cadres through political education. Republicans sought out wealthy donors to set up foundations and think tanks as safe… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
“What advice would you give to a smart, driven college student about to enter the “real world”? Most of the game is about persistence.… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image