Haley: Mom, don’t do it! She’ll be in the same class as I am! Why are you even taking second year math?
Alex: You’re a senior. Why are you still in second year math?
Haley: Not still, again.
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Toby: Technically, I am in Human Resources, and Dwight was asking me about human anatomy. I’m just sad the public school system failed him so badly.
Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. All this is suggested by the systematic procession of events and the harmony of the whole Universe, if only we face the facts, as they say, “with both eyes open.”
Manny: Is something wrong? Who’s died?
Gloria: No one, Manny.
Jay: Why would you even think that?
Gloria: In Colombia, Manny went to Pablo Escobar Elementary School. If you were pulled out of class, it was definitely to identify a body.
Duckie: Good Morning! Welcome to another day of higher education!
Finn: It’s nice helping other people’s dreams come true.
Will: It’s called being a teacher.
Nature has sown in man the seeds of knowledge; but they must be cultivated, to produce fruit.
Kepler was a brilliant thinker and a lucid writer, but he was a disaster as a classroom teacher. He mumbled. He digressed. He was at times utterly incomprehensible. He drew only a handful of students his first year at Graz; the next year there were none. He was distracted by an incessant interior clamour of associations and speculations vying for his attention. And one pleasant summer afternoon, deep in the interstices of one of his interminable lectures, he was visited by a revelation that was to alter radically the future of astronomy. Perhaps he stopped in mid-sentence. His inattentive students, longing for the end of the day, took little notice, I suspect, of the historic moment.
I’d very much like to see Millet reproductions in schools, I think there would be children who became painters if only they saw good things.
Mind your till, and till your mind.
The steps of one’s progress are distinctly marked. At the end of each lesson he knows he has acquired something, and he also knows what that something is, and likewise that it will stay with him. It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think you’ve got it, they spring the subjunctive on you, and there you are. No — and I see now, plainly enough, that the great pity about the German language is, that you can’t fall off it and hurt yourself. There is nothing like that feature to make you attend strictly to business. But I also see, by what I have learned of bicycling, that the right and only sure way to learn German is by the bicycling method. That is to say, take a grip on one villainy of it at a time, and learn it — not ease up and shirk to the next, leaving that one half learned.
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it’s bad for the world.
Tami: Tim, you did not write this paper.
Tim: What’s the big deal?
Tami: The big deal is, that it’s part of my job to make sure that you don’t grow up stupid…it’s bad for the world.
Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others’ lips they catch on the wing, as it were, delightedly, while the little deaf child must trap them by a slow and often painful process. But whatever the process, the result is wonderful. Gradually from naming an object we advance step by step until we have traversed the vast distance between our first stammered syllable and the sweep of thought in a line of Shakespeare.
Never let your schooling interfere with your education.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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my library was dukedom large enough
Prospero:
my library
Was dukedom large enough
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Faith is a wonderful thing, but doubt gets you an education.
When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.
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I found it quite enthralling.
I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours I found it quite enthralling.
Jimmy: If I believed in fairy tales I never would have dropped out of kindergarten.
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman’s constitution.
The more that you read,
The more things you will know.
The more that you learn,
The more places you’ll go.