Quotes About Education

Few things have more impact than nutrition on a child's ability to survive, learn effectively and escape a life of poverty.

In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.

Life is a learning experience, only if you learn.

If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.

Giving children the opportunity to stir up life and leave it free to discover.

I've never felt my job was to win basketball games - rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.

I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true

'I wish for a better life. I wish for food for my children. I wish that sexual abuse and exploitation in schools would stop.' This is the dream of the African girl.

Everything that happens to me in my life, be it good or bad, it's all education, and it's important for that to become part of what you do. It all feeds the beast.

If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.

Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own.

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have.

Literature has the power to change lives, minds, and hearts.

Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

People think life is real complicated. Actually, there's nothing to it. Once you leave out all the bullshit they teach you in school, life gets really simple.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life.

Schools are not about enabling children to have a living but about children being able to have a life.

The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development.

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

Ringo: 'I had no schooling before I joined The Beatles and no schooling after The Beatles. Life is a great education.

In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time - none ... ZERO.