Off to college and off to class gives a girl health, wealth and sass.
What you don’t know can’t protect you.
School or drool.
A cognitive boot can teach an old coot a new hoot.
The value of modern education is that it affords the opportunity to master the fine art of procrastination.
Research papers were invented to punish teachers.
Exams test for knowledge; life tests for wisdom.
Schools train the mind; relationships train the heart.
Snobbery is just rudeness with a college education.
All our tries spring from our why’s.
Knowledge is the boss, except when there’s a loss.
The most honest most educate.
Young luminaries blow; old volcanos flow.
We will repeat what we don’t interpret.
Experience has a lesson for those who avoid it.
The page is wise but not like the eyes
The facts chide, opinions divide.
A lesson is a dish; a course is a meal.
Difficulty earns a degree, a brokenness, a PhD.
Getting an education is hard, staying ignorant more so.
Love may cover a multitude of sins but it won’t put up with bad grades.
Invest in your own education; buy a plane ticket.
It is the mark of the modern educated mind to know many points of view but have none of its own.
A classic is a book known to the public by one of its decontextualized lines.
An alphabet is a song that sings a million words.
A wild creature is won with food, a reluctant learner with a story.
A good education includes some needed, unwanted lessons, how to fail, quit, grieve and come up swinging.
The educated person knows all the questions and mistrusts most of the answers.
We invest the least in what we should invest the most — our preschool teacher’s salaries.
The first rule of the educator is to not interfere with curiosity.
Every few years American educators make a brilliant discovery — how to educate American children.
When we teach to the test we ignore the best.
You can always identify the newborn; she is the youngest person in the room in charge.
Kissing is self-sustaining; it leads to babies, which leads to more kissing.
The sweet top of a baby’s head is compensation for the other end.
With each new baby the world begins again; without the next baby, the world ends.
The eye lashes of a baby are proof of someone’s fine motor skills.
“Like a baby” is only good if we grow out of it.
Learning how to hold a baby is learning how to hold its head up; learning how to be a grownup is learning how to hold your own head up.
His father read him The Economist and his mother played him Bach before he was born. Thus began his education, not so much in economics or music, but in love.
The glory of the child is the parent, the glory of the parent is the child, the glory of the grandparent is the grandchild, and the glory of the grandchild is the grandparent; the glory of the family is the family.
You can be a sixty year old baby if your eighty year old mother is still alive.
Modern Thought Proverbs, Aphorisms and Epigrams 