Education Quote by Arthur Hailey

There’s a quiet defiance in that comma-and-and, a refusal to let the sentiment be reduced to a tidy slogan. “I loved education” could be the safe, socially approved line. Hailey immediately complicates it: “and, yes, I did want to go on learning.” The “yes” reads like a reply to an imagined skeptic - the sort of voice that treats schooling as a phase you graduate from, not a posture you keep. The emphasis on “did” feels almost courtroom-like, a small self-cross-examination that turns persistence into a moral choice.

Coming from Arthur Hailey, a novelist best known for hyper-researched bestsellers (Airport, Hotel), the line doubles as a credo for his method. Hailey wrote fiction like a journalist with narrative muscle: systems, institutions, and workplaces rendered with the authority of someone who keeps taking notes. In that context, “education” isn’t just formal schooling; it’s apprenticeship to reality, the discipline of getting things right because readers can smell when you haven’t.

The subtext is also class-conscious without saying so outright. For a 20th-century writer who built a career by mastering complex subjects, ongoing learning is both ambition and insulation: a way to earn legitimacy in a culture that likes its novelists either effortlessly gifted or charmingly bohemian. Hailey stakes out a third identity - the professional who keeps studying. It’s not romantic. That’s why it lands.