Quotes About Education

I figured I would be teaching my whole life and making experimental films on the side.

I don't really take the college tours and all that. Those are young people and I'm quite sure they're mature enough to understand, but they haven't seen or lived real life yet.

I've never been a teacher in my life.

Unless you plan on making academia your life, all you need to know about postmodernism is that its premises are fundamentally wrong.

College is a secluded life of scholastic vegetation

In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.

You cannot live this life anymore without the ability to read.

The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.

Any success that I've had in my life has been in spite of my education rather than because of it.

A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymuosly in the life of some ex-student's grandchild.

I actually got hurt in a steel factory in 1985 and so that changed my life. I went to a junior college and that's where I discovered acting.

The acquisition however perfectly of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use as a contribution to a common and shared life.

Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing.

Fundamental modes of speech, the bulk of the vocabulary, are formed in the ordinary intercourse of life, carried on not as a set means of instruction but as a social necessity.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.

I am looking at opening a school of social engineering. The McAfee School of Social Engineering has a nice ring to it. Beyond that, it is hard to say what life will bring my way.

I never got along in school really - I already knew what I wanted to do. I have never in my life got a paycheck from anywhere in the world that asked if I went to school.

Teaching has definitely become a big part of my life in the past ten plus years. As it often does for many dedicated players. Because you can have some great gigs.

The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.

I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life.

Parents don't realize that when they teach you about the Holocaust too early, it ruins you for life.

I have very smart parents. I feel I learned a lot from both of my parents and life experience.

I'm pretty good with languages. I know a bit of French and actually want to live in France some day so that I can get fluent. I think it'd be tragic to go through life only knowing one language.

The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome life of the teacher.