Educational Apathy Quotes

I wasn't a troublemaker. I wasn't impertinent. The teachers liked me. But year after year, the comments on my report cards basically came down to a single point, and it was 100% accurate: I seemed to get nothing whatsoever out of all those long hours spent in the classroom.

A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.

Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and makes one immune to enthusiasm.

[On U.S. universities:] The bland leading the bland.

Complacency is the enemy of study.

At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.

I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things.

One wonders at the docility of the students who evidently must be satisfied enough with the credentials to be uncaring about the lack of education.

Work appealed to me; school did not. I was a disinterested, bored student.