Anna Quindlen Quotes

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

I always was very interested in intellect and the massive world of knowledge out there, but in terms of being a kid who wanted to be treated as an equal, school is not the place.

I hate to be smart.

I'd been going to school up to the third term of year 11 at MLC, and there was no point in dropping out. Having gone through Year 12, there's so much that helps you acquire the knowledge you need. It helps you in life.

Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

We owe it to our children to equip them with all the capabilities they'll need to thrive in the limitless world beyond the classrooms.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

If you're smarter than me, you shouldn't be reading my books.

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

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

I think if education was celebrated in pop culture, we'd live in a better place.

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.

My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.

A good education is the most important gift we can give our young people.

The trained mind is a rich mind.

I was quite academic, quite geeky when I was a kid. I was more interested in going to school than I was in becoming a film star or something.

Education is key. I graduated from high school; everyone needs to.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

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.