Harper Lee Quotes

I knew school was stupid since the fifth grade.

I teach how to fit into a world I don't want to live in. I just can't do it anymore.

I loathed school. I don't have an academic mind, and besides I was so bored by my teachers! How teachers can take a child's inventiveness and say yes, yes, in that pontifical way of theirs, and smother everything!

I learned nothing while I was in school.

I was bored at school and bored in a lot of the kitchens. It seemed like all I was doing was putting things into saute pans.

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

I'm sick of the treadmill.

I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.

I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.

I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

I hate entertainment.

I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.

I have just gotten to the point where I have been very, very disgusted with the fact that nothing is going on down there.

Man, I hated school. I'd stare at the buttons on the teacher's shirt the whole class.

I only complained in school, as I did not like studying.

But the grind has begun. The windows don’t open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to stem the tide of frustration, decay. We’ve reached the end of pure inspiration, and are now somewhere else, something implying routine, or doing something because people expect us to do it, going somewhere each day because we went there the day before, saying things because we have said them before, and this seems like the work of a different sort of animal, contrary to our plan, and this is very very bad.

I hated school. Hated it.

How many times do we all have to do this? Get up, go to school, again? Before everyone admits it's a crap idea?

Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

My education was interrupted only by my schooling.

If school days are the happiest days of your life, I'm hanging myself with my skip-rope tonight.

The anger I have about high school - which I do have because they discouraged every interest I ever had; actually I call it anti-education - that anger led to my career.

Welcome to adulthood," she said. "It sucks as much as high school.

What matters school? We can go to school to-morrow. Whether we have a lesson more or a lesson less, we shall always remain the same donkeys.

I grew up in a school system . . . where nobody understood the meaning of learning disorder. In the West Indies, I was constantly being physically abused because the whipping of students was permitted.