Quotes About Education

The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks.

One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person.

I have said it often and I will say it again: I believe you learn to read when you are young, then read to learn for the rest of your life.

Teaching has never been far from my life. It's the most natural thing I do. Apparently, as I said, I cannot not do it.

To live the practical aspect of life as part of our schooling is formidable, but to adopt living it as our ultimate goal is absurd.

It is wonderful what a difference learning makes upon people even in the common intercourse of life, which does not appear to be much connected with it.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Harvard meant a lot in my writing life from the beginning, even though I didnt actually do much composition on the spot.

We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.

We learn not for life but for the debating-room.

Life without literary studies is death.

Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura

The first years of a child's life are too important for a child's future - their development, earnings, behavior, and health - for anyone to ignore.

Don't let your life outside of school dictate your future.

Yes, being educated is definitely an advantage. But having said that, I've met so many people in life who haven't done very well at school but who are still really bright.

Even for charity I always give priority to education because I always teach young people - knowledge is your real companion, your life long companion, not fortune. Fortune can disappear.

When everybody has access to an avalanche of information, becoming a master thinker is very important in your life-long security.

A university is not, thank heavens, a place for vocational instruction, it has nothing to do with training for a working life and career, it is a place for education, something quite different.

College totally changed my life. It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy.

I wanted to be an elementary school teacher my whole life.

I wanted to be a fifth grade teacher because my teacher was so important to me and was giving me the education that was going to take me through life and through this world.

Two Arts degrees does not a life make.

I ended up doing amazing things with my life; I'm well-read, educated and sophisticated - and I'm not the stereotype everyone makes me out to be.

The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.