Jo Brand Quotes

If you look at the people who have high impact, they have pretty general knowledge. They don't have a really narrowly focused education.

Education should be as broad as man.

Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.

I don't remember one thing I learned in school.

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.

I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate.

I believe primary and secondary education is the bedrock of any sustainable society.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

I have that special sort of novelist body of knowledge which is extraordinarily wide and very, very shallow. So I can usually answer the questions on 'Jeopardy,' but never the bonus question.

Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.

I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose educational system had its roots dating back to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.

My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.

The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities.

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.

A memorable change must be made in the system of education and knowledge must become so general as to raise the lower ranks of society nearer the to the higher.

A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.

In the age of the specialist, the generalsit gets short shrift.

I don't think that the basics that kids need have changed in 10,000 years.

In school, I couldn't see any sense to reading, writing, and arithmetic. Sure, they kicked me out, but for trifles, like continual daydreaming and smoking, that wouldn't be grounds for expulsion nowadays.

We need education across the board on all fronts.