Edward Blishen Quotes
Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Education is a way of empowering people; it opens up so many doors and is fundamental to everybody. And teachers are not often appreciated in the way that they should be.
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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.
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We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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Great law schools like Northwestern are here to expand the minds of their students, to allow them to achieve their personal goals, to enable them to contribute, to give back in ways that they could not without the education they receive here, and to help them make the greatest country in the world just a little more accessible, a little fairer.
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If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.
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I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.
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I think the rigors of a TV schedule are brutal and 'Six Feet Under' wasn't a network schedule. We did 13 shows, we didn't do 22. I don't know how people do that. I really don't. I mean the shows are shorter, but wow, it's quite a discipline.
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When you have teachers saying, 'I don't have enough time for hands-on activities,' we need to rethink the way we do education.
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You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.
