Quotes About Education

Skateistan's not just about skating. It's giving people life skills and hope for the future.

Educating all of our children must be one of our most urgent priorities. We all know that education, more than anything else, improves our chances of building better lives.

If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.

Our cultural dilemma has nothing to do with children who don't read very well. It lies instead in the difficulty of finding a way to restore meaning and purpose to modern life.

The more one knows, the luckier he is, for knowledge is the greatest gift in life.

The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world.

The concept of an education centered upon the care of the living being alters all previous ideas. Resting no longer on a curriculum, or a timetable, education must conform to the facts of human life.

To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.

Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please.

Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life.

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

Effective learning means arriving at new power, and the consciousness of new power is one of the most stimulating things in life.

We teach what we know, but we reproduce what we are.

Life is a classroom -- only those who are willing to be lifelong learners will move to the head of the class.

The primary goal in the education of children is to teach, and to give the example of, a virtuous life.

Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don't know any better.

Whether you like it or not the millions are here, and here they will remain. If you do not lift them up, they will pull you down... Education must not simply teach work - it must teach life.

I discovered early in life that if you take gym first period, you can go into the wrestling room and sit in the corner and sleep.

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

It is good to live and learn.

We could teach photography as a way to make a living, and best of all, somehow to get students to experience for themselves photography as a way of life.

Those who keep learning, will keep rising in life

The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.

The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.