Poetry Quote by Mary Balogh

“I felt there was a lot I needed to teach her. I wanted to give her an early grounding in the basics of arithmetic…

— Jeannette Walls

“The lessons she'd been forced to learn were dry spare things, the facts without the sense of them, given in the simplest of language,…

— Robin McKinley

“In truth she is not a hard lady naturally, and the time has been when the sight of the venerable figure suing to her…

— Charles Dickens

“She could not fail to observe that a life of academic distinction was singularly ill rewarded. She had no desire whatever to teach and…

— Agatha Christie

“My mother started school when she was six and stopped the same term. She was unusual in the village, as she had a father…

— Malala Yousafzai

“She was not an unkind woman, despite a lifetime of being gently dried out on the stove of education, but she was conscientious and…

— Terry Pratchett

“But she had learnt, in those solemn hours of thought, that she herself must one day answer for her own life, and what she…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“She had managed after he died to get the two of them through college and beyond; but she had observed that the more education…

— Flannery O'Connor

“I armed her against the censures of the world, shewed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that if they…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“Francie, huddled with other children of her kind, learned more that first day than she realized. She learned of the class system of a…

— Betty Smith

“Things were not so simple after all. She could not understand even her own feelings. She saw the most cherished of her convictions put…

— Virginia Woolf

She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the…

— Flannery O'Connor