Quotes About Education

You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.

I'm not sure that finding a husband at university made me any less of a feminist or an academic. I still soaked up Susan Faludi; I still read Doris Lessing. But I did it at the same time I met someone who I felt was my soulmate.

I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.

When the student is ready, the master appears.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you'll go!

The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that cannot read them.

The system decides you can't run schools in the summer.

I think day care is terrific. Kids get to be around other kids, and they're playing, and they're teaching each other. When I was in college, my summer job was being a preschool teacher. I loved it, and after that experience, I said I can't wait to put my kid in day care because I could see how much they loved it.

Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields.

Marriage is when a man looses his bachelors degree and woman gets her masters degree.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.

It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge.

A child from the age of 2 or 3 absorbs what is in the environment and what generates hatred for anyone perceived to be different.

I remember being a student and I would go every Friday to the Louvre and stay for ages, just walking around.

We need to let our children grow up to face the world armed with knowledge, with much more knowledge than we ourselves had at their age. It is scary, but the alternative is worse.

Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.

The young are of age when they twitter like the old; they are driven through school to learn the old song, and, when they have this by heart, they are declared of age.

I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age.

We're taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don't have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.

Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.

I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.

The frontal cortex doesn't even fully develop until age 25, which is wild!