Quotes About Education

A warrior takes every opportunity to teach himself.

We must study things we will never use, but which someone told us were important to know.

You can only learn when you teach.

I have spent my whole life educating myself.

Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.

Music has always been a big part of my life, it moves me, it educates me and it makes me grow. It is a fantastic language to help you explore ideas.

The most powerful lessons occur where studies intersect with real life.

There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.

When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.

The proper school to learn art is not life but art

Your education or your life, Claire. I'd rather you be alive and a little bit dumber.

The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.

The minute you feel like there's nothing left to learn, whether it's with your career or life, you're done.

I believe I have a lot to learn in life, still.

No matter how much knowledge and wisdom you acquire during your life, not one jot will be passed on to your children by genetic means. Each new generation starts from scratch.

Education does loads of things for girls that wont surprise you at all - it provides self-esteem, teaches important life skills, and offers the kinds of choices a good education can give anyone.

I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.

I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.

I have an MFA in writing. It is debatable if they are right for everyone, but I had a mentor who really changed my life, so it worked for me.

Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.

The wrong way to look at your university life is to say it's like job training, unless you're going into something very specific.

Your college education is a key moment in life.

Philanthropy is an important subject of liberal education because it examines the role of good works in shaping our conceptions of the good society and the good life.

My whole life as a grammar-school boy, getting to Cambridge University and working on the 'London Sunday Times' has been very aspirational.