Quotes About Education

The value of a good education has never left me.

56 percent of learned information is forgotten within an hour of being encoded. By the time one day has passed, another 10 percent is gone. A month after the information is learned, 80 percent of it has vanished. How

Going to car racing school was phenomenal.

Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library.

One of the joys of reading as a writer is that your eye becomes educated: yes, you may become more critical and abandon a higher percentage of novels halfway through, but when a writer gets it really right, the pleasure and admiration can be all the more intense.

every child got a right to learn,

but any school that invited the Lord into every class was one that had to succeed.

Everybody wants to do whatever they can go give their kids an edge, even if it is ridiculous.

Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.

Dr. Richard Davidson, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, concludes, "Your grades in school, your scores on the SAT, mean less for life success than your capacity to co-operate, your ability to regulate your emotions, your capacity to delay your gratification, and your capacity to focus your attention. Those skills are far more important—all the data indicate—for life success than your IQ or your grades.

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

I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?

These days there's so much technology and ways you can learn. There are videos and CD roms.

I've never stopped learning.

Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.

Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.

Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English.

No quieres entender que para ser algo en esta vida se necesita más labia que saber. ¿Qué ganas con estudiar? ¿Qué ganas con estudiar? ¡Nada!

Curioso ¿por qué?... Después de todo, somos los pobres los más conformes. ¡Y qué remedio, pues!... Verdá es que con eso de la escuela los que han aprendido a ler andan influenciados de cosas imposibles. Hasta mi mujer resulta a veces triste porque dice que quisiera tener alas los domingos.

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

Of good natural parts, and of a liberal education.

Experience, the universal Mother of Sciences.

Fascism is cured by reading, racism is cured by traveling.

The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.