Ray Bradbury Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

• I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

  Ray Bradbury

  Believe, School, College

  "A Literary Legend Fights for a Local Library" by Jennifer Steinhauer, www.nytimes.com. June 19, 2009.

• There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.

  Ray Bradbury

  School, Library, Use

• With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.

  Ray Bradbury

  School, Intellectual, Swimmer

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

• If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their own ungodly manufacture.

  Ray Bradbury

  Teacher, School, Editors

  Ray Bradbury (1990). “Fahrenheit 451: Curriculum Unit”

• You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught.

  Ray Bradbury

  Teacher, Writing, School

• I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old boy. The library fueled all of my curiosities, from dinosaurs to ancient Egypt. When I graduated from high school in 1938, I began going to the library three nights a week. I did this every week for almost ten years and finally, in 1947, around the time I got married, I figured I was done. So I graduated from the library when I was twenty-seven. I discovered that the library is the real school.

  Ray Bradbury

  Real, School, Boys

  "Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews". Book by Sam Weller, 2010.

• When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.

  Ray Bradbury

  Reading, Writing, School

• "Oh, ancient god, whatever your name," whispered Ahmed. "Help this lost son of a good father, this evil boy who meant no harm but slept in school, ran errands slowly, did not pray from his heart, ignored his mother, and did not hold his family in great esteem. For all this I know I must suffer. But here in the midst of silence, at the desert's heart, where even the wind knows not my name? Must I die so young? Am I to be forgotten without having been?"

  Ray Bradbury

  God, Mother, Father

• The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.

  Ray Bradbury

  Home, School, Trying

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.29, Hamilton Books

• When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

  Ray Bradbury

  School, High School, Self Education

  "A Literary Legend Fights for a Local Library" by Jennifer Steinhauer, www.nytimes.com. June 19, 2009.

• My parents read the comics to me, and I fell in love with comic strips. I've collected them all of my life. I have a complete collection of all the "Buck Rogers" Sunday funnies and daily paper strips, I have all of "Prince Valiant" put away, all of "Tarzan," which appeared in the Sunday funnies in 1932 right on up through high school. So I've learned a lot from reading comics as a child.

  Ray Bradbury

  Children, Reading, School

  "I Graduated from the Library: An Interview with Ray Bradbury". Interview with Brendan Dowling, publiclibrariesonline.org. November/December 2002.

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