Terry Pratchett Quotes

From the time I started school, it was clear to everyone that I wasn't learning at the same pace as other kids.

It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it.

The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.

But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

Repeating is harder than anything else.

In the end, I did end up repeating seventh grade.

I never thrived in high school.

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.

I struggled academically in high school because it was hard to focus. It was hard to focus on those things that were other than artistic stuff.

I think you never leave what you learn.

I'm very slow. I'm a slow learner.

Maybe you could go backwards and forwards at the same time, but it wasn't easy. You had to want to.

It's not supposed to be easy. Anyone who finds it easy is stupid.

The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics.

... studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is not to know it all at once but to struggle to meet the timing of knowledge.

I can't be easy. It's not my nature. But it's my nature to love you.

It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal - otherwise she is sure to forget, for she is someone who is always learning and forgetting and obliged to learn again.

They never said winning was easy.

Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.

It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard.

Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.