Emma Willard Quotes

My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

I think boarding school does give you an independence.

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

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.

My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school.

Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.

I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.

For me, high school was the one place where I knew my friends were gonna be, so I was there. I didn't like it, I wasn't involved in things, and they didn't teach me anything that I needed to know. But my mom said I had to go, and so I went.

Asian parents generally tend to channel their children, especially their daughters, into studying and not sport.

My sister was brilliant: she was in the 25 top math students in the country. When she finished college, I said, 'Spend a couple of months here in Europe. You'll get another take on life.' She never came - married some schmuck who made clothes for fat women on Seventh Avenue.

I was almost expecting the Olympics to be the biggest thing ever, but it wasn't. It was just another race.

Short of the dishonest, the illegal, and the cruel, there's only one thing my son could do that would really disappoint me: not liking reading.

I liked school. I was creative and artistic and fit into most groups.

In places where people read hardcover books and eat sushi, they're not signing a five-year-old up to tackle another five-year-old.

The more educated you get, the better shot you have to get it right, but if you're really trying something different, it's a challenge every time.

About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard.

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

Study! Study ! Study! Get an education.

Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.

If the colleges were better, if they had the power of imparting valuable thought, creative principles, truths which become powers, thoughts which become talents, - if they could cause that a mind not profound should become profound, - we should all rush to their gates: instead of contriving inducements to draw students, you would need to set police at the gates to keep order in the in-rushing multitude.

Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.

No one can keep their word. Everyone's in hurry and jumping to the next opportunity. There's something missing.