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Quotes About Education

I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.
~ Jamie Lee Curtis
In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.
~ Imran Khan
I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then
~ Alan Ladd
The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It's supposed to be fun.
~ Barbara Bush
As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life.
~ Bruno Walter
In retrospect I would say from Donald Duck I have learned more about life than from all the schools I ever attended.
~ Gottfried Helnwein
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.
~ Helen Keller
Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and educating for making a living.
~ James Wood-Mason
College was the greatest four years of my life.
~ Jennie Finch
Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.
~ Benjamin Barber
What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.
~ Thomas A. Edison
Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation
~ Robert Frost
I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I was taught the difference between right and wrong as it specifically applied to Catholicism.
~ Robert Vaughn
Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.
~ Samuel Smiles
Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you must learn to die. Seneca (Roman philosopher)
~ Seneca the Younger
From your first day at school you are cut off from life to make theories.
~ Taisen Deshimaru
I've learned so much through life. Starting off in Asia, the cultures, the people you meet, the poverty you see. It's been a great education for me, and I've loved every minute of it.
~ Vijay Singh
Get between your kid and drugs, any way you can, if you want to save the kid's life.
~ Carroll O'Connor
I've never been to Harvard, I've never been to college, so I don't know what dorm life is like.
~ David Fincher
If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.
~ David Riesman
Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.
~ Edsger Dijkstra
The public library is more than a repository of books. It's a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives.
~ Elizabeth Taylor