Learning things had been harder.
Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on. (H)
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Education had been easy.
Learning things had been harder. Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on. (H)
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There were lessons later on. These were going a lot better now she’d got rid of the reading books about bouncy balls and dogs called Spot. She’d got Gawain on to the military campaigns of General Tacticus, which were suitably bloodthirsty but, more importantly, considered too difficult for a child. As a result his vocabulary was doubling every week and he could already use words like ‘disembowelled’ in everyday conversation. After all, what was the point of teaching children to be children? They were naturally good at it. (H)
'Are you offering to teach me something?’
‘Teach? No,’said Granny. ‘Ain’t got the patience for teaching. But I might let you learn.' (Ma) 'Do teachers go anywhere special when they die?’ said Cohen.
‘I don’t think so,’ said Mr Saveloy gloomily. He wondered for a moment whether there really was a great Free Period in the sky. It didn’t sound very likely. Probably there would be some marking to do. (IT) The best thing you can do with the peasants is leave them alone. Let them get on with it. When people who can
read and write start fighting on behalf of people who can’t, you just end up with another kind of stupidity. If you want to help them, build a big library or something somewhere and leave the door open. (IT) Rincewind had faced many horrors in his time, but none held quite the same place in the lexicon of dread as those few seconds after someone said, “Turn over your papers now." (IT)
'I decided to give it up and make a living by the sword.’
‘After being a teacher all your life?’ ‘It did mean a change of perspective, yes.’ ‘But...well…surely…the privation, the terrible hazards, the daily risk of death…’ Mr Saveloy brightened up. ‘Oh, you’ve been a teacher, have you?' (IT) 'Look,’ said Susan, ‘I’d just like you to know that I don’t believe any of this. I don’t believe there’s a Death of Rats in a cowl carrying a scythe.’
‘He’s standing in front of you.’ ‘That’s no reason to believe it.’ ‘I can see you’ve certainly had a proper education'. (SM) She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept trying to interfere with it. (SM)
Miss Eulalie Butts and her colleague, Miss Delcross, had founded the college on the astonishing idea that, since gels had nothing much to do until someone married them, they might as well occupy themselves with learning things, (SM)
'We taught her everything she knows,’ said Granny Weatherwax.
‘Yeah,’ said Nanny Ogg, as they disappeared into the bracken. ‘D’you think ... maybe...?’ ‘What?’ ‘D’you think maybe we ought to have taught her everything we know?’ ‘It’d take too long.' (LL) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact. (MP)
Teppic hadn’t been educated. Education had just settled on him, like dandruff. (P)
'It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever,’ he said. ‘Have you thought of going into teaching?’
Death’s face was a mask of terror. Well it was always a mask of terror, but this time he meant it to be. (M) 'They do say if it’s summa cum laude, then the living is easy - ' (LF)
'And ye know how tae fight?’
‘I’ve read the Manual of Swordsmanship all the way through!’ After a few seconds the voice from the high shadows said: ‘Ah, I think I’ve put my finger on a wee flaw in this plan …' (W) After all, what was the point of teaching children to be children? They were naturally good at it. (H)
... you can't teach cats to do anything. No, not a thing. You might think you can, but that is because you've misunderstood what's going on. You think it's the cat turning up obediently at the back door at ten o'clock for dinner. From the cat's point, a blob on legs has been trained to take a tin out of the fridge every night. (UC)
Grandad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity. (JD)
The problem, of course, was the frogs. Not rains of frogs, which were uncommon now in Ankh-Morpork, but specifically foreign treefrogs from the humid jungles of Klatch. They were small, brightly coloured, happy little creatures who secreted some of the nastiest toxins in the world, which is why the job of looking after the large vivarium where they happily passed their days was given to first-year students, on the basis that if they got things wrong there wouldn’t be too much education wasted. (TT)
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