Education Quote by Thomas Love Peacock

When Scythrop grew up, he was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from…

— Thomas Love Peacock

“Folk said he had once been a scholar and written books and learned and learned till his brain fair softened and right off his…

— Lewis Grassic Gibbon

“How to distract Scorpius from difficult emotional issues. Take him to a library.”

— John Tiffany

“Beneath the chinaberry tree at the school, on the wide rolling clay earth scattered with fallen berries, he had thought himself homesick. But now…

— Donald Windham

“A muscular hulking figure walked steadfastly toward her, naked yet festooned with plant life. Every inch of the being was covered with leaves and…

— Pete Kahle

“In a good-natured way he had almost decided that Princeton was one part deadly Philistines and one part deadly grinds, and to find a…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Life's book is hard to understand; Why couldst thou not remain at school?”

— Charles Hanson Towne

“Now when he walked in his fields and pastures and woodlands he was tramping into his mind the shape of the land, his thought…

— Wendell Berry

“with little sleep and much reading his brains got so dry that he lost his wits. His fancy grew full of what he used…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“School began in earnest next day. A profound impression was made upon me, I remember, by the roar of voices in the schoolroom suddenly…

— Charles Dickens

“He was grateful, then, for his friends, and for how relatively little they had mined from him, how they had left him to himself,…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“He took a grim and ironic pleasure from the possibility that what little learning he had managed to acquire had led him to this…

— John Williams