Quotes About Education

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

I think if our students, if our high school students — if all of the American citizens — knew about probability and statistics, we wouldn't be in the economic mess that we're in today

We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.

When he fell behind as an innovator, he reinvented himself as an instructor.

the teacher transfers the spirit of the right art from heart to heart, that it may be illumined.

Meaningful progress toward social justice cannot be made in sclerotic education systems that put adults' job security before children's civil rights.

My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence. [Sources and Acknowledgements: Chapter 19]

When I was taught Shakespeare in school, it was such an alien, sanitized puzzle, it made no sense.

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However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.

My first qualification is I didn't go to Columbia Journalism School.

Going to university is, and should be, so much more than a mechanical process of grinding out a degree qualification for a pre-determined career path.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

My own introduction to music came quite early. My father didn't have much of an education, but he was keen for me to get some qualifications, and I ended up winning a choral scholarship to a cathedral school.

I didn't have any qualifications when I left school - I had three O-levels.

There's more to life than passing exams, and paper qualifications can only take you so far. A lot depends on luck, and on being in the right place at the right time, which was certainly true in my case.

I'm not educated. I left school when I was 16, with no qualifications.

The mentality needs to be changed, and sometimes legislation needs to be improved. There is a perception that apprenticeships are for jobs with low qualifications.

I don't know about an awful lot of stuff. I'm not educated. I left school when I was 16, with no qualifications. The thing that I do know about is my feelings and what I think of the world and what I think of me.

People in the precariat find themselves in the situation where the level of their education and qualifications is almost always higher than the sort of labour that they're going to be able to obtain.

You only have a true choice when you know what opportunities are out there and what qualifications you need.

I hadn't been to drama school. I hadn't been to university and acted there. I had no qualifications behind me.

I studied carpentry for three years and passed all my qualifications. If it wasn't for football then I would still be doing that. I honestly really enjoyed it.

I haven't been to Oxbridge. I haven't even been to a London art school. My qualifications are pretty meagre for such a brief, but I just trust in my sense of what I'm interested in and my mission of clarity.