Hollowness Of Education Quotes & Sayings

A dreamer born is a hero bred ... — Mary Chapin Carpenter

I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about. — Jack O'Brien

I think there are people who do write regionally, because that's their subject matter - the way the sunset looks over a strip mall, memories of flirting at the ice rink, waking up to a deer at the window ... Up to now, that hasn't been mine. — Matthea Harvey

The success of our economy shouldn't determine the success of our schools. — Bob Riley

Although I know very little of the Steppenwolf's life, I have all the same good reason to suppose that he was brought up by devoted but severe and very pious parents and teachers in accordance with that doctrine that makes the breaking of the will the corner-stone of education and upbringing. But in this case the attempt to destroy the personality and to break the will did not succeed. He was much too strong and hardy, too proud and spirited. Instead of destroying his personality they succeeded only in teaching him to hate himself. It was against himself that, innocent and noble as he was, he directed during his whole life the whole wealth of his fancy, the whole of his thought; and in so far as he let loose upon himself every barbed criticism, every anger and hate he could command, he was, in spite of all, a real Christian and a real martyr. — Hermann Hesse

Who dat dere's gunna beat dat team? Who Dat? Who dat? — Dick Murdoch

Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; otherwise, teaching loses all sense of wonder and excitement. — Alan Bennett

I do sit-ups and push-ups at home, and that's about it. I have a gym card, but I never go there. It's a front. I pay for the membership every couple of years, thinking I'll be embarrassed enough to go. But every time I go, there's like people twice my age that look twice as good! — Rachael Ray

VII. A Knock at the Door VIII. A Hand at Cards IX. The Game Made X. The Substance of the Shadow XI. Dusk XII. — Charles Dickens

I strongly believe that we can create a poverty-free world, if we want to ... In that kind of world, [the] only place you can see poverty is in the museum. When school children will be on a tour of the poverty museum, they will be horrified to see the misery and indignity of human beings. They will blame their forefathers for tolerating this inhuman condition to continue in a massive way. — Muhammad Yunus

I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor. — Maira Kalman

My belief is, from all that I have seen of the French people and their Government, that they are much more likely to presume upon our weakness than to take offence at our strength. — Robert Peel

Terrible as is war, it yet displays the spiritual grandeur of man daring to defy his mightiest hereditary enemy
death. — Heinrich Heine

Well, there are those who would say it's a form of aggression."
"What is?"
"A surprise. — David Mamet

I'm six-foot-five. I'm not going to win the gold medal in figure skating. But I can try, and that's what matters. Trying. — Aleks Paunovic

The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart. — Joseph Joubert