Quotes About Education

In the first 27 years of my life, I never had written a single non-technical word. I went to engineering college and went to business school. I never knew I could write fiction of any form.

I needed to go to class; I needed to go to practice; I needed to have a life away from basketball.

We book people are always preaching about reading aloud to children, but unless you do, you can't realize how it enriches family life.

I woke up one morning and realized that what I wanted to say to everyone - children, young people, adults - was: Read for your life.

New York is a great place to be fed in the arts. The arts in general are a large part of my life. The city was my postgraduate course.

Once I learned to read, I could not imagine my life otherwise.

I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.

I never went to school for art or was told what to like or when. So every day is a learning process, like most of life.

I was single for most of my life. The best thing that happened to me is my wife. I've got four kids. All of them go to Harvard. Much better than their dad. They're really bright kids.

I found going to school when I was modeling very grounding. It's really kept my perspective on bigger things in my life.

A child without an acquaintance of some kind with a classic of literature ... suffers from that impoverishment for the rest of his life. No later intimacy is like that of the first.

I dropped out of college and I'm pretty much a self-educated person, so a lot of my core belief system comes from life.

Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.

Some things in life are not pleasant but they have to be done. For instance, German and maths.

Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be -- to me in all events -- a terrible thing without books.

The dry knowledge of the three R's is not even now, it can never be, a permanent part of the villagers' life.

Ten guards and the warden couldn't have torn me out of those books. Months passed without even thinking about being imprisoned....I had never been so truly free in my life.

The trouble with education is that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means. And the trouble with life is that we're always too busy to re-read it later.

With longer life spans and better health and education, many feel that giving birth to a baby a mere couple of decades after they themselves were in the cradle is a little premature.

I went to boarding school and then I went to Oxford, and I know how easy it is for certain groups of people to become wholly insulated from ordinary life.

College was a blast. My three years of college were the best years of my life.

The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.

My students know I have a life, they know I've written about my life. They know some detail, probably more than they know about their physics teacher, but I would've told them anyway!

Reading civilized the inner life.