Jennifer Stone Quotes

I was taught Shakespeare brilliantly by an eccentric genius at Harrow named Jeremy Lemmon who made me want to be a writer.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own; to induce in others a love for that which one loves; to make of one’s inward present their future; that is a threefold adventure like no other.

Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through ignorance and misery.

A mentor, a 'teacher,' is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher.

Years later, nothing makes me more grateful as a parent than my daughters' encounters with classroom wizards.

I had many good teachers, but only three of them were school teachers.

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

I mean, I knew I wanted to do this kind of thing in school, but to actually have somebody that would bring you into that world, that was really exciting, you know?

Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

To me, the avocation of a teacher has something elevating and exciting. While surrounded by the young, one may always be doing good.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

Education is all about igniting young minds and enabling them to attain their fullest potential.

Great teachers transcend ideology.

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

I try to read writers who are better than me because it inspires me to be better.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.