Quotes About Education

If you go to school and practice for five days a week, it still gives you two days you can go and see your friends, you can go to the movies, you do whatever you like to do.

Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.

The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.

A modern school where football is taught.

I went to university (Brown), I worked as a designer, I competed in Olympic sport (rowing) ... and I ended up being a musician. It's in the DNA, I guess.

I was well-rounded, I'd been to college. It wasn't that I couldn't do anything else. I wanted to stay in sports, but if I couldn't think, how was I going to play?

Every year there's an Oscar and Grammy and we celebrate those shows. We do the same in the U.S about sports schools and colleges. The same thing doesn't happen for tech and STEM.

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.

The most important thing we stressed is that we want those kids to be productive citizens.

I think few people of education enter politics because it seems like a contact blood sport.

I was never good at sports. I was never good at exams, because they didn't understand dyslexia.

In 1786, Jefferson pitched a secular and public system of education for Virginia. He reasoned that "the tax which will be paid for this purpose is not more that the thousandth part of what will be paid to [the] kings, priests, and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance.

I don't think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won't learn anything unless you enjoy it.

School taught me only to read and write. And that sliver of learning set me on the surest road to starving to death in honesty and ignorance. You were the first to open my eyes to widespread corruption. To have understood that the only forces that drive humanity are thieving and swindling - that's real intelligence. And you didn't even go to school.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.

Information is not knowledge.

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

Play is the highest form of research.

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.