Quotes About Education

I came to understand the value of education, not just to enable me to make a good living, but to enable me to make a worthwhile life.

There are two components that are fundamental to enjoy life and feel good about yourself: continual learning and service.

If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas.

I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life.

You can go your whole life and not need math or physics for a minute, but the ability to tell a joke is always handy.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

I try to show the public that chemistry, biology, physics, astrophysics is life. It is not some separate subject that you have to be pulled into a corner to be taught about.

Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?

The biggest mistake of my life was taking a military education.

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

Let us not fool ourselves - without Christianity, without Christian education, without the principles of Christ inculcated into young life, we are simply rearing pagans.

Education is no longer thought of as a preparation for adult life, but as a continuing process of growth and development from birth until death.

Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.

Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.

Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

... all education must be unsound which does not propose for itself some object; and the highest of all objects must be that of living a life in accordance with God's Will.

You're not going to get very far in life based on what you already know. You're going to advance in life by what you're going to learn after you leave here.

Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.

I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise.

Reading is the best return on investment. You have to live your entire life in order to know one life. But with reading you can know 1000s of people's lives for almost no cost. What a great return!

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, is essential to development and health, and opens the way for democratic participation and active citizenship.

I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life.

I have never spent a day in my adult life where I didn't learn something, and if there is a born-again quality to me, that's it.