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Quotes About Education

When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all.
~ Paul Simon
Every day I'm learning something new from the practice. It's very rewarding.
~ Ai Weiwei
As a child, I was called stupid and lazy. On the SAT I got 159 out of 800 in math. My parents had no idea that I had a learning disability.
~ Henry Winkler
The objective of education is learning, not teaching
~ Russell L. Ackoff
Don't judge. Teach. It's a learning process.
~ Carol S. Dweck
... studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is not to know it all at once but to struggle to meet the timing of knowledge.
~ Paulo Freire
Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning.
~ Tony Buzan
Belief gets in the way of learning.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Laughing brains are more absorbent.
~ Alton Brown
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
~ Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?
~ Idries Shah, Reflections
Thank goodness my education was neglected.
~ Beatrix Potter
Education is a lifetime assignment & terminates when you do.
~ Orrin Woodward, LIFE
Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.
~ John Ray
Each day learn something new, and just as important, relearn something old.
~ Robert Breault
Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast.
~ Peter Drucker
Warren is one of the best learning machines on this earth. The turtles who outrun the hares are learning machines. If you stop learning in this world, the world rushes right by you.
~ Charlie Munger
Education is what people do to you. Learning is what you do to yourself. Focus on being connected, always learning, fully aware and super present.
~ Joichi Ito
I'm always going to be a student. I'm always learning. I'm always trying to grow. I'm always trying to understand. I never want to feel like I've arrived.
~ Lecrae
Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
~ Agnes Repplier
Don't be afraid of losing, be afraid of playing a game and not learning something.
~ Dan Heisman
In the world of entrepreneurs, you don't need a college education. You need a proper education.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
There is no separation of mind and emotions; emotions, thinking, and learning are all linked.
~ Eric Jensen
It's not the school, the curriculum, or the teacher, but motivation that is the single most important ingredient in learning.
~ Ivan Sutherland