Edward Blishen Quotes

Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.

Edward Blishen

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It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.

Ferran Adria
- You
- Eyes
- Discipline
If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

Patrick J. Kennedy
Upper education used to open doors. Not so true anymore. The degree used to be a screening tool, but that is falling by the wayside as there are a glut of college grads on the market.

Dale Archer
- True
- Education
- College
I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.

V. S. Naipaul
- Friends
- Man
- Nice
After Brown, I went to Duke, to a Ph.D. program in American literature. My dad's an English professor. After a year there, I was like, 'Jesus. I don't want to do this. I don't want to be in the library.' So I pulled the ripcord, and that was it.

Nathaniel Philbrick
- American
- Dad
- Jesus
Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.

Obiageli Ezekwesili