Education History Quotes

I went to Catholic school throughout my whole academic life. In fact, my children - my husband and I and our children in my own family now have over 100 years of Catholic education among us.

I was born in Massachusetts. I live in Stillwater. I went to school in Florida.

In the 1820s, the U.S., Japan, and the U.K. were some of the only countries where the average population received at least two years of formal schooling.

I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961.

Regarding African education in this country, there was a time when the government took no interest whatsoever in African education. It was the churches, that part of civil society, which bought land, built schools, and employed and paid teachers. People like myself, right from grade eight up to university, I was in missionary schools.

I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.

The first 10 years of my education were spent at a Catholic school in Springfield, Mass.

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

The very first schoolbook that was written had God all over it.

In the history of education, the most striking phenomenon is that schools of learning, which at one epoch are alive with a ferment of genius, in a succeeding generation exhibit merely pedantry and routine.

Sandra Day O'Connor - once she said that there are - there were no public schools in America until the 18th century, and she overlooked my alma mater because we started - I say we - in 1635. And among the people who went there - and they're on - the walls in the auditorium, the names are: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Cotton Mather, Benjamin Franklin, except he split when he was 10 years old to go to work.

America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.

I went to a state school in Christchurch, New Zealand, and then straight on to the University of Canterbury. But I worked part-time all the way through high school: first with a paper round, then at a fast-food outlet, a video store and a hardware store.

I was an English major.

Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would tolerate learning.

I collect books and I have some really, really old schoolbooks, and God is mentioned on every single page.

I went to Midwood High School in Brooklyn and then to Brooklyn college for 1 1/2 years.

I was at Wortley Juniors until I was about 12 and then left for a season at Farsley.

I was a business major, then went to law school, and I practiced a few years.

I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in 1974. And I got my doctorate in 1975.

Resume? I wish I had a resume. And if I did, I wouldn't scrub anything from it. Who cares?

A long time ago, there was no such thing as school, and children spent their days learning a trade, a phrase which here means "standing around doing tedious tasks under the instruction of a bossy adult." In time, however, people realized that the children could be allowed to sit, and the first school was invented.

My father left school at the age of fourteen, so this was a man with no deep experience of formal education.

I spent a year at Southwestern Louisiana Institute, then transferred back to the University of Texas, where I majored in English and history.

I grew up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. I attended the Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, Maryland, from 1978 to 1984.