A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
Essays, "Character," 1844
Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither they nor their teacher know.
Pnin (1957)
Forrest: How are you going to learn anything if you keep doing schoolwork?
The Initiative
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Chinese proverb
Harry did not usually lie in bed reading his textbooks; that sort of behaviour, as Ron rightly said, was indecent in anybody except Hermione, who was simply weird that way.
Ch. 12
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.
Nightmare Abbey
His English education at one of the great public schools had preserved his intellect perfectly and permanently at the stage of boyhood.
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Jayne: Hell, I don’t know. If I wanted schooling, I’d-a gone to school.
Principal Snyder: A lot of educators tell students, 'Think of your principal as your pal.' I say think of me as your judge, jury and executioner.
School Hard
Skinner: Uh oh, two independent thought alarms in one day. The children are overstimulated. Willie, remove all the colored chalk from the classrooms.
The more that you read,
The more things you will know.
The more that you learn,
The more places you'll go.
I Can Read With My Eyes Shut! (1978)
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
Phrixus. Frag. 927.
Young cat! If you keep
Your eyes open enough,
Oh, the stuff you will learn!
The most wonderful stuff!
I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!