Helen Herron Taft quotes

Helen Herron Taft quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I do not dislike teaching when the boys behave themselves.”
-- Helen Herron Taft

#Education Quotes #Teaching Quotes #School Quotes

“To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.”
“I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.”
“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.”
“All I have learned, I learned from books.”
“If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.”
“Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
“I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes, but increasing responsibilities have forced me to shed much of it in recent years.”
“Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.”
“But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.”
“I'm not good for you. I don't know why you make me want you so bad. I was angry with myself when I said all that earlier. I was mad because I wanted you in a way I'd never experienced before. Before you, I just wanted to excel in football and school. I wanted my parents to be proud of me. But now, I want other things too. You get to me in a way I don't understand”

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