Quotes About Education

We learn not in the school, but in life

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.

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.

One great question underlies our experience, whether we think about it or not: what is the purpose of life? From the moment of birth every human being wants happiness and does not want suffering. Neither social conditioning nor education nor ideology affects this. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment. Therefore, it is important to discover what will bring about the greatest degree of happiness.

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

Those who get lost on the way to school will never find their way through life.

All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners... Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing... not moving toward excellence.

Art has no enemy except ignorance.

Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Education is not all the lessons we learn from, in our life. We all are witness to our own life, and we gain knowledge from our mistakes and that gives us wisdom, we can all speak about our own lessons we learn from living our own life, & that they don't teach in school!

Knowledge is what we are informed about,it is impacted in us,but how we apply the awareness is your wisdom. is not a subject studied in school nor a program you offer.

The journey of our lives is not just about the destinations we have reached. Our wisdom, education and personal growth come from the people we meet, the paths we choose to follow and the lessons we have learned along the way.