Education Quote by Lorrie Moore Download Open image ““What was education for, if not to acquire contradictions? At least it looked like that to me. ”” — Lorrie Moore ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Education
“it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.” — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“I, as an anarch, renouncing any bond, any limitation of freedom, also reject compulsory education as nonsense. It was one of the greatest well-springs… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“His teachers, as a result, could shape the minds and values of their students without contradiction from children who might know something of what… — Blaine Harden Copy Share Image
“Education! That was it! It was education that made the difference! Education would pull them out of the grime and dirt.” — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Someone once said that education was knowing what to do when you don’t know,” — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“Education teaches us many things: but nothing worth knowing can be taught. It has to be caught – through fellowship with the true, the… — Dada J.P. Vaswani Copy Share Image
“We don't have education, we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool.” — Bob Marley Copy Share Image
“Education stems from the desire to learn. With that, you don't need schools. Without it, all the schools in the UNIVERSE are useless.” — Gene Brewer Copy Share Image
“There was always something sly about any act of education. Eve had learned that in the garden.” — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Yes, for education. An actual education, not finishing school—they’re going to squeeze me into corsets and bully me into silence.” — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
But I believed in starting over. There was finally, I knew, only rupture and hurt and falling short between all persons, but, Shirley, the… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in what people will do for money. Money: it's timeless. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“One of the problems with people in Chicago, she remembered, was that they were never lonely at the same time. Their sadness occurred in… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“If you had forgotten, it would quickly come back to you. Aloneness was like riding a bike. At gunpoint. With the gun in your… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Observing others go through them, he used to admire midlife crises, the courage and shamelessness and existential daring of them, but after he'd watched his own wife, a respectable nursery school teacher, produce and star in a full-blown one of her own, he found the sufferers of such crises not only self-indulgent but greedy and demented, and he wished them… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share
Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and what now your creative writing class calls "self-contempt giving rise to comic form." Write down all of his jokes, but don't tell him you are doing this. Make up anagrams of his old girlfriend's name and name all… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share
“Amber was not shy. If she had been shy, not one of us would be at Perkins right now.” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Farmers aren't rich. They have land but no money." Actually, my father didn't even have that much land. He had once stood on the… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“My grandmother, who, when I visited, stared at me with the staggering, arrogant stare of the dying, the wise vapidity of the already gone;… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share
“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by” — H.D. (Hilda Doolittle Copy Share 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 Copy Share
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image