Quotes About Education

THE most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me

She'll soon forget." "Caddy," said Saffron impatiently, "she is headmistress of the private school! She's probably never forgotten anything in her whole life!

In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but simply a three-mile heat.

All the students have shown more advance in two months of summer study than they have in a year of ordinary instruction, largely due to their free and wholesome life in the open air.

Self-education is a continuing source of pleasure to me, for the more I know, the fuller my life is and the better I appreciate my own existence

While it was a very interesting period in my life, I was happy to get back to more direct contact with students in the classroom and in my research projects.

I've done jiujitsu a huge chunk of my life, and I try to spend a lot of time educating people on the nuances, the subtleness of the ground game. It's a big part of mixed martial arts.

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.

Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.

Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.

It was my notion that teaching had to be thorough, it had to be well done, and it had to connect to something beyond the classroom; life.

Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people.

Put me in any city, I'll end up doing something with kids. That's the time of your life when it's pure fun.

The entertainment industry is pretty nuts, and having had that experience outside of it and going to university has really made a big difference. It's important to me to feel like I have my own life.

I hope that having my life and having an education will lengthen my career.

The happiest and most glorious hours of my life with books have been with German books.

The most important thing an institution does is not to prepare a student for a career but for a life as a citizen.

Children don't heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.

Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life.

Engineering is not only study of 45 subjects but it is moral studies of intellectual life. Make things as simple as possible..but not simpler.

Overemphasis of the competitive system and premature specialization on the ground of immediate usefulness kill the spirit on which all cultural life depends, specialized knowledge included.

Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes.

There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations

I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.