Quotes About Education

Once you have done with school, you realise that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five.

We shouldn't any of us be afraid of teaching protective measures to save lives.

The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from it.

What if we were to take seriously the possibility that our students have a rich and authoritative inner life and tried to nourish it rather than negate it?

Education for livelihood alone will never make our life full and complete.

I didn't really like being at college. It wasn't like it was Oxford and had been the most wonderful time of my life. It was really a dull, boring course I was stuck on.

Learning should never stop for all age groups. We can empower millions to realize the opportunity to help shape a new society of creative 'mentorologists' in all areas of life.

The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket.

Prereading is a game changer. It changed my life. Everyone is smarter when they have seen the material before. You will be too.

Science literacy consists in the ability and the desire to follow reports of new scientific advances, throughout your whole life.

Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic.

I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.

The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning.

Service to others should be one of the most basic purposes of family life and schooling.

Experiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experiences first hand.

The most important educational vehicle in all life is a parent figure.

Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest. That's not the way my people rear their children. They let them experience the world as it is.

A neglect of one's sentimental education early in life could bear the most unfortunate fruit.

I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it.

An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school.

The examined life has always been pretty well confined to a privileged class.

Life is a school and problems are the curriculum.

There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.

As a director, you should choose a project that will educate you and enrich your life, because you're going to be doing it for two years.