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Quotes About Education

There is no more powerful advocate than a parent armed with information and options.
~ Rod Paige
If you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.
~ Werner Herzog
Your parents ask you to follow the standard path: School, job, security. Is this really the best way? I don't think so - be your own boss!
~ Kim Dotcom
I never taught my girls to play golf; they all played softball
~ Nancy Lopez
The things I can't do are the things I have yet to learn.
~ Barbara-Cooper Washington
I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.
~ Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf
Live like there's no tomorrow and learn as if your life depends on it
~ Omar Kiam
Philosophy has forgotten about children
~ Bernhard Schlink
A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare you for life.
~ Ernest Dimnet
We teach what we need to learn.
~ Gloria Steinem
Ignorance is not an extension of time
~ H. G. Wells
I'm just going to go to schools and give inspirational speeches about our bodies. I'll just wear flowing dresses and talk way quieter than I can.
~ Jen Kirkman
If you're having trouble, it's because you just don't know how - yet!
~ Jill Konrath
In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much.
~ John Charles Polanyi
Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory
~ Leo Tolstoy
A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000.
~ Leonard Louis Levinson
If we learned all we needed to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.
~ Peter McWilliams
I consider this world to be like a school and our lives to be the classrooms.
~ Oprah Winfrey
An expert knows the subject very well. A model teaches by showing instead of just telling.
~ Thomas Leonard
Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
There is more in the education of children than the everlasting iteration of the word "don't!"
~ Austin O'Malley
When I'm hiring, I don't look for credentials, I look for knowledge.
~ Aza Raskin
Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant.
~ Bertrand Russell
People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on television.
~ Chaz Bono