Educated man Quote by Thrity Umrigar

“Ferrin looked at her like she had two heads. “You don’t want to marry my son?” “Hell. No.” He resumed his seat. “That’s the…

— Chris Cannon

“Gansey had forgotten how much time school occupied. Perhaps it was because he now had more to do outside of school, or perhaps it…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“We learned in class, were lectured to about wars and famines, ancient kings and queens, the habits of presidents. But the lectures were cursory.…

— Anton DiSclafani

“They were so ignorant! Young men and women, educated very carefully to be apolitical, to be technicians who thought they disliked politics, making them…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“It was a cheap school, you know, and the teachers weren't very good. They could never answer questions properly." "Very few teachers can," I{Jerry}said.…

— Agatha Christie

“Gansey looked at the handwritten ticket for the pizza in his hand. According to the bubbly writing, their waitress’s name had been Cialina. She’d…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“The thing Lady didn't get, or the thing she'd forgotten, was that being a child was painful too. She was so wrapped up in…

— Edan Lepucki

“He hurried the phrase ‘educated at Oxord,’ or swallowed it, or choked on it, as though it had bothered him before.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“What was education for, if not to acquire contradictions? At least it looked like that to me. ”

— Lorrie Moore

“Shocked, the teacher rushed out and brought back the headmistress. Throughout the rest of the period, both of them tried to figure out who…

— Chetan Bhagat

...Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him the strength…

— Louisa May Alcott

“An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the…

— Terry Pratchett