Quotes About Education

My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments.

This life is a process of learning.

I spent three of the best years of my life in 10th grade.

Teaching is really a natural extension of one's practice--one wants to share something that's so influential and beautiful in one's life.

I been drunk most my life, don't ask me why. Through ninth grade, I ain't go to high school, ...I went to school high.

The key to success is dedication to life-long learning.

I started life in a poor family and could not even afford a proper tertiary education.

Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children.

That's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.

It's not what you will get out of the books that is so enriching - it is what the books will get out of you that will ultimately change your life

You can't just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life.

Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.

Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours.

I quit school and it's not because I'm lazy. I'm just not the social type and campus life is crazy.

Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.

What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.

We must therefore turn to the child as to the key to the fate of our future life.

Education, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social life.

Every child has a right to education as much as to life, and every woman the right to live.

To teach is to show what is possible; to learn is to make yourself possible.

Nowadays it seems that moral education is no longer considered necessary. Attention is wholly centered on intelligence, while the heart life is ignored.

Suppose we were to teach creationism. What would be the content of the teaching? Merely that a creator formed the universe and all species of life ready-made? Nothing more? No details?

Girls must be thwarted early in life.

The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.