Terry Pratchett Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

• The thing about witchcraft," said Mistress Weatherwax, "is that it's not like school at all. First you get the test, and then afterward you spend years findin' out how you passed it. It's a bit like life in that respect

  Terry Pratchett

  School, Years, Mistress

  "The Wee Free Men". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2003.

• I taught myself more in the library than school taught me.

  Terry Pratchett

  School, Library, Taught

• She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.

  Terry Pratchett

  School, Trying, Opinion

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)”, p.25, Random House

• People whose concept of ancient history is the first series of Star Trek may be treated with patience, because it's usually not their fault they were reduced to getting their education from school.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stars, School, People

• Funny, reely," he said. "You spend your whole life goin' to school and learnin' stuff, and they never tell you about stuff like the Bermuda Triangle and UFOs and all these Old Masters running around the inside of the Earth. Why do we have to learn boring stuff when there's all this brilliant stuff we could be learnin', that's what I want to know.

  Terry Pratchett

  Running, School, Triangles

• Well, the traveling teachers do come through every few months," said the Baron. "Yes, sir, I know, sir, and they're useless, sir. They teach facts, not understanding. It's like teaching people about forests by showing them a saw. I want a proper school, sir, to teach reading and writing, and most of all thinking, sir, so people can find what they're good at, because someone doing what they really like is always an asset to any country, and too often people never find out until it's too late.

  Terry Pratchett

  Country, Teacher, Teaching

• I decided at school that the only sensible way to make a living by arranging words in a pleasing order was by working on newspapers, because you got paid at the end of the week or the end of the month.

  Terry Pratchett

  School, Order, Way

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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