Quotes About Education

I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.

Learning how to learn is the most precious thing we have in life.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge.

Whoever makes you smarter a little earlier in life makes you better

My first-grade teacher told me I was the dumbest student she ever had. She did me a favor. If she told me I was very smart, I wouldn't have tried to improve.

Life is like a school; one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind.

You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in school.

The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn.

The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life problem.

My father still reads the dictionairy every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.

Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.

It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.

The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout life.

Wisdom is not what comes from reading great books. When it comes to understanding life, experiential learning is the only worthwhile kind, everything else is hearsay.

I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill, but a pen can give life.

This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.

The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That's not life.

The past is interesting to me because it's been dumbed down or flattened out, or academically nitpicked so you can't get any life out of it, you just get data.

You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems.