Education Quote by Mary Wesley Download Open image “Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.” — Mary Wesley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Education Learning Looking back Teaching Writing
I wouldn't have wanted anyone to teach me how to write. That's my own taste. I prefer to stumble on it. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Writing has been a way of explaining to myself the things I do not understand. — Rosario Castellanos Copy Share Image
I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing. — Daniel Pinkwater Copy Share Image
Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person… — Mary Wesley Copy Share Image
My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever… — Mary Wesley Copy Share Image
I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out'… — Mary Wesley Copy Share Image
Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all… — Mary Wesley Copy Share Image
It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere. — Mary Wesley Copy Share Image
They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises. — Mary Wesley Copy Share Image
I always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse. — Mary Wesley Copy Share Image
That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they… — Mary Wesley Copy Share Image
You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from… — Mary Wesley Copy Share Image
We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out… — Mary Wesley 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… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
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… — Ioannes Amos Commenius Copy Share Image
“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… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
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
