Art Quote by Walker Percy

“School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job…

— Ray Bradbury

Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.

— Al Pacino

In literature classes, you don't learn about genes; in physics classes you don't learn about human evolution. So you get a fragmented view of…

— David Christian

“My purpose in the classroom, and the main reason I’ve written this book, is to translate the truly astounding, groundbreaking, sometimes even revolutionary discoveries…

— Walter Lewin

By the year 2070 we cannot say, or it would be imbecile to do so, that any man alive could understand Shakespearean experience better…

— C.P. Snow

“Science has its place in man’s search for understanding, but science and the imagination have tended to bifurcate in the modern world; only the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

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

— Charles Hanson Towne

I’ve noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my twenty-five years of teaching - that schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of…

— John Taylor Gatto

“cademics and intellectuals are culture vultures. In a gathering of today’s elite, it is perfectly acceptable to laugh that you barely passed Physics for…

— Steven Pinker

Shakespeare is practically our only link with the classic and the past. The future of education has much to do with whether we will…

— Allan Bloom

“Shakespeare drew a map of the human mind as clearly as Newton mapped the heavens. Wht is one considered science and the other fir…

— Sebastian Faulks

“Life is the most effective school ever created. Once upon a time they made children bow their heads and read books. It would take…

— Pierce Brown