Charles Dickens Quotes

There's a lot to be said for an American-style liberal-arts education, which prevents young people from professionalizing right away.

The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking.

I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a while—there was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time! But there never is! You never even hear any hints dropped on a campus that wisdom is supposed to be the goal of knowledge. You hardly ever even hear the word 'wisdom' mentioned!

Educated fools; from uneducated schools.

The first thing I learned at school was that some people are idiots; the second thing I learned was that some are even worse.

My Master of Arts degree means nothing at all to these monkeys and I have come to share their indifference.

Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?

We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid. With all the little facts we learned, we never had the time to think.

Education today does not impart to the students the capacity or grit to face the challenges of daily life. The educational field has become the playing ground of ignorance.

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.

We are taught words, not ideas.

The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.

If Everybody In The World Dropped Out Of School We Would Have A Much More Intelligent Society.

The use of thesis-writing is to train the mind, or to prove that the mind has been trained; the former purpose is, I trust, promoted, the evidences of the latter are scanty and occasional.

According as each has been educated, so he repents of or glories in his actions.

When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all.

It never ceases to amaze us that when we were in kindergarten they taught us that a frog turning into a prince was a nursery fairy tale, but when we got to college they told us that a frog turning into a prince was science.

She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.

I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.

We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.

A university is not, thank heavens, a place for vocational instruction, it has nothing to do with training for a working life and career, it is a place for education, something quite different.

I was educated once - it took me years to get over it.

Universities are less constrained by authority and rigid doctrine in the United States than in most other societies, to my knowledge.