Quotes About Education

We teach our children one thing only, as we were taught: to wake up. We teach our children to look alive there, to join by words and activities the life of human culture on the planet

Life is the best teacher.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

In the U.S., we believe the best way to improve lives is to improve public education.

Education is learning more than it is being taught. It's the chemistry of curiosity exposed to information. In that sense all of life is potentially school. And even I can pass that.

Your life only gets better when you get better, and you can improve yourself without limit. Learn something new every day.

Is there intellectual life in America? At present, the answer is no.

I studied for my degree in London and consequently ended up spending five years away from Cornwall. I deliberately moved away from the coast to experience a different way of life.

In our democracy every young person should have an equal opportunity to obtain a higher education, regardless of his station in life or financial means.

I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years I accumulated a lot of knowledge but I also created a kind of habit of learning that has stayed with me my whole life.

College is something you complete. Life is something you experience.

To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.

Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't.

There's a lot of pressure on kids, period, just to be successful in life.

So the ethic I was taught in school resulted in the path I chose in my life following school.

Every film I make I feel like I am getting a mini-masters degree, it's a wonderful life path and you get to immerse yourself in an intriguing world for a couple of years.

What's important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you'll receive in your Assignment.

A father is a thousand schoolmasters.

And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.

Life without learning is death.

Reading is a key feature in the life of every single successful person I have ever met.

Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours a week, will cause their brains damage.