William G. Spady

To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I’m doing is I’m studying.

All the learnin’ my father paid for was a bit o’ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

The more you learn the more you realize how much you don’t know.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

There was no word dyslexia when I was a kid. You were just dumb.

In our culture and in culture sometimes they make you feel a little be weird for being smart… but we are intelligent people and our dreams matter regardless of if you speak with an accent and people think that that makes you not intelligent.

I went to college on an art scholarship at the American Academy of Art, but the education comes from being passionate about objects, spaces, colors and the way they affect your senses.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the highest return.

The function of this school is custodial. It’s here to keep these kids off the streets until the girls are big enough to get pregnant and the boys are old enough to go out and hold up a gas station.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.