Terry Pratchett Quotes

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease.

The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.

Education is the key. With a really good education, you have a much broader view of the world. Well-educated people can seek help for themselves. They can help others.

Education is the single most important job of the human race.

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

I was not thinking about infinite multipliers when I was 10. But I did have a father who was a Ph.D. in commerce and finance and an intellectual man. And so I had a feeling, probably about the time I went to college, that I would try to be a scholar and teacher, but I didn't know which field.

My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student.

I really missed going to college. I missed not having that education and that experience.

I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.

It's always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the educational system, so it's really important to me. I don't believe in so many things in life, but something I believe in is education.

They greatly respected scholarship in itself, but they also impressed upon us that there were great opportunities available for those who were well educated. I received my primary and secondary education in Chicago.

Our home had many books due principally to the educational interests of my sister and two brothers, all of whom where serious students engaged in professional studies; my sister became a doctor of medicine and my brothers became lawyers.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

Education came to be one of the great preoccupations, enlightenment was viewed as the greatest single opportunity to escape .... Parents made untold sacrifice to secure learning for their children that they had been denied.

As far as my education goes, I've always felt that was my hobby instead of acting.

I knew without doubt that I would try and continue my education as I was skating.

My family has always valued my education.

One of my main reasons for going to college is to try to get a liberal arts background.

My mother wanted me to be a reader. She was a reader. Even though she had an 11th-grade education, she was curious about all kinds of things - archeology, anthropology.

I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene

Education is fundamental to any success. That's your baseboard.

You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.

Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.

Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.

How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn't saved, isn't taught?