Learning Loss Quotes

My teachers could easily have ridden with Jesse James for all the time they stole from me.

Learning will be cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

I didn't go to school a lot.

So completely had learning decayed in England that there were very few men on this side of the Humber who could apprehend their services in English or even translate a letter from Latin to English... There were so few of them that I cannot recollect a single one South of the Thames when I succeeded to the kingdom.

Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head.

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

If we learned all we needed to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.

Every institution is perfectly capable of forgetting what it has learned in three years.

I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.

It is little short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not already completely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.... I believe that one could even deprive a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness if one could force it with a whip to eat continuously whether it were hungry or not.

So are all the kids on the East Coast repeating school next year? Get ready to see a lot of hairy eighth graders. Storm brain drain.

Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.

In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.

If you miss one day in physics, that's it.

When Scythrop grew up, he was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the university, where it was carefully taken out of him.

During the year, our schools are busy slashing P.E. and recess to make more time for math. During the summer, we get ourselves worked into a tizzy that our children will forget their fractions.

Ineffective substitute teaching is a problem that means thousands of hours of lost learning for America's students. It cannot be dismissed with a sigh and 'Just wait for the teacher to come back on Monday.'

Each day that passes without kids being able to go to school is an enormous burden on the future.

We are in the middle of an education recession.