Quotes About Education

Accreditation. The "doctorate of fine art." I've never heard something so stupid in my entire life.

I'm passionate about learning. I'm passionate about life.

All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all living things whatsoever.

What you do and learn in life physically changes what your brain looks like—it literally rewires it.

School is a drill for the battle of life. If you fail in the drill you will fail in the battle.

Education is the sum total of one's experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or our own daily lives.

Life is a game, where either you lose or you learn.

Education today does not impart to the students the capacity or grit to face the challenges of daily life. The educational field has become the playing ground of ignorance.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.

Education has been a really big part of my life. I went to an all-girls school for most of my life, and the curriculum was definitely at the top of your list.

A child's geographic location, race or parent's income level should not predetermine their life's course and it's up to us to see that they don't.

True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious.

Hold tight to the mentality of being a student, meaning hold on to curiosity and approach life as a student.

Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books.

All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely.

I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life.

the only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

Two things are necessary, the development of individuality and the participation of the individual in a truly social life.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

If we've been a little more successful than other people, is because we always realised that the school of life was always open, and if you were not learning more you are falling behind.

The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind.

I'm learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework...procrastinating and negotiation.

The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and work.

I know how art has come in and really changed my life, so to give these children that opportunity just to come into contact with art - that's wonderful.