John Updike Quotes About Education

Quotes about: Education

• Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

  John Updike

  Motivational, Inspiring, Education

  John Updike (2013). “Picked-Up Pieces: Essays”, p.22, Random House

• Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

  John Updike

  Education, Learning, Years

  John Updike (2012). “Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism”, p.923, Random House

• School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

  John Updike

  Funny, Education, Witty

  1963 The Centaur, ch.4.

• I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway.

  John Updike

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

• You cannot but learn more of the world's heft, as you take it now into your hands.

  John Updike

  Education, Hands, Inspire

  John Updike (2011). “Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism”, p.479, Random House

• It's not up to us what we learn, but merely whether we learn through joy or through pain.

  John Updike

  Education, Pain, Learning

• The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

  John Updike

  Education, Children, Father

  John Updike (1963). “The Centaur”, Ballantine Books

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