Skitch Henderson Quotes

My education, according to the tradition of the Jesuit school which I attended, had been centered on the 'ancient humanities', and I was strongly attracted to the more literary branches.

And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.

I was an English major.

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.

I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics. Meaning Roman and Greek history and philosophy and ancient civilizations.

Without Greek studies there is no education.

The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek.

In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.

I feel friendship towards philosophers, but towards sophists, teachers of literature, or any other such kind of godforsaken people, I neither feel friendship now, nor may I ever do so in the future.

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.

The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.

Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.

Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training.

I attended the elementary school at Schweinfurt and the secondary school.

My mother had been a Latin teacher, and she was always very fascinated with words. She and I shared books and responded to them.

I spent my first two years at a small all-male college in Virginia called Hampden-Sydney. That was like going to college 120 years ago. The languages, a year of rhetoric, all of the great books, Western Man courses, stuff like that.

I have not the advantage of a classical education, and no man should, in my judgement, accept a degree he cannot read.

In these times when the practice of letters declines, no rather perishes in the cities of Gaul, there has been found no scholar trained in ordered composition to present in prose or verse a picture of things which have befallen.

The earliest instruction was imparted orally, a system still extant in Africa and the Orient. lt trains the mind to listen.

Whilst a man may escape from the burden of an unlucky name, or from the contempt attaching to a city of no repute, by changing the one or quitting the other, he can never remedy the neglect of early education. The foundation, therefore, of this last must be laid in the first years of life, the disposition molded whilst it is susceptible and the mind trained whilst it is retentive.

Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth.

Having a larger vocabulary the day you walk into kindergarten is advantageous.