Max Beerbohm Quotes

I hated school. Hated it.

Going to our school is an education in itself which is not to be confused with actually getting an education.

For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read the newspaper.

I want to pay tribute to the teachers who, during my life at school in the public education system, saw something in me and encouraged it.

I'm half-and-half on school. I had fun in grade school, but when I went to college, it was the worst place I've ever been in my entire life.

Living in a bubble as I said in a featherbed of privilege. That's why leaving home, leaving the prep school and going to the University of Michigan in the early '60s was a moment of awakening and to go to a place like Michigan and to see suddenly a world in flames and the injustices all around was quite a wake up call. I lasted a year and a half at Michigan before I dropped out and joined the merchant marines and I was a merchant marine for my sophomore year then I came back to Michigan.

The best school in the world will scarcely save a boy who hates the school and the purpose it serves and the society that created it.

Reducing children to a test score is the worst form of identity theft we could commit in schools.

I hate, loathe and despise schools.School is bad for you if you have any talent. You should be cultivating that talent in your own particular way.

Only the schools’ inefficiency can account for creativity surviving after age 25.

Hate, like prayer, changes the person involved in the activity, not the person the activity is aimed at.

I hate school at that time. Now, little did I know that actually if I had stayed in school I would've actually really liked college. I wasn't aware enough to know that the junior high I was suffering through would be school at its worst.

I learned a lot of good things in my school. I've audited a lot of other schools, and I guess after a while I got a little tired of the acting school atmosphere.

We have always believed that our people can stand on no higher ground than the school ground, or can enter any more hopeful room than the classroom. We blend time and faith and knowledge in our schools - not only to create educated citizens, but also to shape the destiny of this great Republic.

But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.

Education has been a really big part of my life. I went to an all-girls school for most of my life, and the curriculum was definitely at the top of your list.

We should see schools as safe arenas for experimenting with life, for discovering our talents... for taking responsibity for tasks and others people, for learning how to learn... and for exploring our beliefs about life and society.

I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

I'm shedding off the old me and I'm reborn as the new me - it's great!

We are watching people who've been educated in the public school system and in colleges for the last 25 or 30 years become adults. They're getting jobs as TV commentators and journalists and writers and editors and producers in the media. And we're simply seeing the product of what they've been taught. And they so hate what they've been told is America's history and past that they want everybody to know they disagree with it and they've got nothing to do with it, and they had nothing to do with it, and don't blame them.

That person I was when I was a lot younger is not who I am today.

The problem with education is school.

Grandfather always said school’s a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.

At school, I was this tomboy kid who just loved to hang out with her friends and learn curse words, trying to fit in with the cool kids and defending all the kids who got picked on.

When I came to Detroit I was just a mild-mannered Sunday-school boy.