Quotes About Education

I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street.

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

I wasn't dyslexic, I was just very slow. I passed my time daydreaming.

Television is just the wrong medium, at least in prime time, to teach science. I think it is hopeless if it insists on behaving like television. . . .

Every time you fail, you learn more.

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.

Once upon a time, about 20 years ago, runners believed they didn't have to do anything but run

Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.

I got kicked out in grade school because I staged a riot because I wanted more library time.

I read books all the time, I'm always reading. I'm not like somebody that reads really fast or a lot or anything, but I always have a book that I'm reading.

Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely.

There is so much to teach, and the time goes so fast.

When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching.

I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de Man was there.

Those who are learning to compose and arrange their sentences with accuracy and order are learning, at the same time, to think with accuracy and order.

At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time.

How many languages can a child learn? As many as you will take the time to teach them.

I think a lot of people learn to code messing around with things while in secondary school. And for me, it started up as a hobby and a plaything, and I just became more curious over time.

Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.

Education is the great equalizer of our time. It gives hope to the hopeless and creates chances for those without.

I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time.

The time you quit learning is the time to quit playing.

The more developed your abs, the less time you've spent reading.