Joseph Mawle Quotes

In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.

I was a disinterested student.

I wanted to go to regular high school - it looked like a lot of fun.

I was never really good in school.

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.

I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.

Our youth of today, it is to be feared, is backward to learn; studies are accounted irksome.

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

Academic studies in general is not something that I'm very good at.

I was a class clown, never got good grades.

I started school in the 4th grade and it was a real drag.

... there are no chains so galling as the chains of ignorance--no fetters so binding as those that bind the soul, and exclude it from the vast field of useful and scientific knowledge. O, had I received the advantages of early education, my ideas would, ere now, have expanded far and wide; but, alas! I possess nothing but moral capability--no teachings but the teachings of the Holy Spirit.

If there are activists in Cosas and they do poorly academically, then they would be cited as examples as to why others should not be in Cosas.

I just didn't like going to school.

I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.

It is my ambition that parents can send their children to school with the prospects that they are as interested and excited to learn on their last day of school as they were on the very first.

I think everybody should go to high school. It's horrible, and it unites you with other people.

One may have broad or narrow talents, but only education renders them useful. Schools set up to train people will develop the intelligence of those who have it and end the stupidity of those who do not, providing a specialty to those who have narrow talent and broad knowledge to those with all-around ability.

When I was six or seven, we went to the nearest English primary school, St Weonards, about seven miles away. The teaching was good, and this was the start of my beginning to shine as a student.

I used to be a reasonably good student.

I never thrived in high school.

At school, I had to work really hard to get a D in maths. And I wasn't slacking off; I actually did work quite hard.

A school that believes in the power of knowledge and learning will have reading at its core.

Reading can be just feeding, but smart reading takes us further. The classroom is one way to go deeper, but we can't stay in school forever.

In online learning environments, it is often hard to tell whether a student is struggling. By the time test scores are lagging, it's often too late - the student has already quit.