Karen Russell Quotes

I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.

I have a chart for success at school because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. It opened my mind to the world. I learned to read.

The basis of anything is education, so that people not only become qualified, but essentially become able to create new knowledge

It is … interest of all, that every one, from birth, should be well educated.

We prepare children to learn how to learn, not how to take a test.

The human being acquires a habit of learning. He learns to learn.

A good education alters the judgment and manners…

We need a serious intellectual culture in schools.

The savage and women are not what we call intellectual because they are not taught to know and manipulate the materials of knowledge.

If we educate our kids well, they will be more competitive.

My parents tolerated me reading comics because they knew I was also reading 'proper' books, too.

It's been a while since I've studied: since high school. It's a lot of work, a lot of work.

I was a really good student. In the sixth grade, I was reading at a twelfth grade reading level. But I got bored.

I do think observing is important in learning.

I would like my kids to study well.

Television was essentially my college.

Many of you have been reared on the cliche that the purpose of education isn't to stuff your head with facts but to teach you how to think. Wrong.

I kind of always did get good grades.

I believe education is much more important than we assume.

I'm a good student. Just trying to learn as much as possible is how I picked up so many languages.

Sciences were not my favourite subjects at school. I preferred English, drama, music, and history.

I used to be a reasonably good student.

When you have no idea what to do or how to do it, you just need to see and absorb as much as you possibly can and just fill your vocabulary and your brain with as much as humanly possible.

My parents wanted me to get a degree.

Science and math are hard for everybody, and it's usually not a matter or being born gifted at it or not. It's hard work, but it can be a lot of fun!